Hidden inside imputes sit impetus, imputes, and uptimes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impetus, imputes, and uptimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from imputes at 11 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in imputes: two come from rearranging its letters, and imputes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impetus, imputes, and uptimes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imputes turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impute, septum, and uptime, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imputes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, setup, suite, temps, times, and upset. For points, the strongest plays are spume, stump, tempi, temps, and tumps — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in imputes produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, must, pets, pies, pits, puts, and site. For points, the strongest plays are imps, mips, simp, sump, temp, tump, and umps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling imputes turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, met, pet, pie, pit, put, and set. For points, the strongest plays are imp and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imputes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, me, um, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, pe, pi, um, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in imputes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
imputes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for imputes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
imputes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imputes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impetus, imputes, and uptimes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imputes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in imputes produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.