pimpernel needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pimpernel is the highest-scoring word from pimpernel, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pimpernel — and it is pimpernel itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pimpernel turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, nipple, and pimple. For points, the strongest play is pimple — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pimpernel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prime. For points, the strongest play is primp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pimpernel produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with line, mile and mine. For points, the strongest play is pimp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pimpernel turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip and men. For points, the strongest plays are imp, pep, and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in pimpernel plus one additional letter.
pimpernel 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 5-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 pimpernel. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
pimpernel is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pimpernel unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pimpernel, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pimpernel 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 pimpernel produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 21 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.