Hidden inside imprints sit imprints and misprint, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imprints and misprint tie for the highest Scrabble score from imprints at 12 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in imprints: one comes from rearranging its letters, and imprints itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imprints and misprint, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imprints produces exactly one seven-letter word: imprint. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, print and strip. For points, the strongest plays are impis, primi, prims, and prism — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imprints produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mint, pins and pits. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including impi, imps and mips.
Unscrambling imprints turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pin and pit. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imprints. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are mi and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in imprints plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imprints and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
imprints 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 seven senses for imprints. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
imprints is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imprints unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are imprints and misprint, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from imprints 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 imprints produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.