palimpsests needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 699 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palimpsests is the highest-scoring word from palimpsests, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 699 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in palimpsests — and it is palimpsests itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palimpsests produces exactly one ten-letter word: palimpsest. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling palimpsests turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are psalmists and stampless, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palimpsests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with simplest. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including simplest, appliest and impasses.
Rearranging the letters in palimpsests produces 63 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 palimpsests turns up 121 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, apples and assist. For points, the strongest play is pimple — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 194 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in palimpsests. 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 palimpsests produces 187 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 palimpsests 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 palimpsests. 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.
palimpsests 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 palimpsests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
palimpsests is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing palimpsests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is palimpsests, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from palimpsests 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 palimpsests produce 699 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 121 six-letter words, 194 five-letter words, 187 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.