palimpsest needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 658 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palimpsest is the highest-scoring word from palimpsest, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 658 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in palimpsest — and it is palimpsest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palimpsest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simplest. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including simplest, appliest and impastes.
Rearranging the letters in palimpsest produces 51 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with applies, pimples, and samples. For points, the strongest play is pimples — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palimpsest turns up 105 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, apples and emails. For points, the strongest play is pimple — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 192 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palimpsest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sails, sales and salts. For points, the strongest play is pimps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in palimpsest produces 186 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, apes and lame. For points, the strongest play is pimp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palimpsest turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ape and ass. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including map, amp and app.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palimpsest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in palimpsest plus one additional letter.
palimpsest 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for palimpsest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
palimpsest is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palimpsest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is palimpsest, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from palimpsest 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 palimpsest produce 658 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 12 eight-letter words, 51 seven-letter words, 105 six-letter words, 192 five-letter words, 186 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.