pimpernels 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, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pimpernels is the highest-scoring word from pimpernels, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pimpernels — and it is pimpernels itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pimpernels produces exactly one nine-letter word: pimpernel. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pimpernels. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is spermine, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pimpernels produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empires, nipples, pimples, and simpler. For points, the strongest play is pimples — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pimpernels turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, nipple and pimple. For points, the strongest plays are pimple and primps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pimpernels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, miles and peels. For points, the strongest plays are pimps and primp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pimpernels produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, line and lips. For points, the strongest play is pimp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pimpernels turns up 57 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.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pimpernels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
pimpernels 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 pimpernels. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pimpernels is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pimpernels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pimpernels, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pimpernels 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 pimpernels produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.