Hidden inside pompeii sit pimp and pomp, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EPIPIMO, IMPOPEI or OMIPIPE and you get the same 7 letters as POMPEII: so the words from POMPEII listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pimp and pomp tie for the highest Scrabble score from pompeii at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in pompeii produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pimp, pipe, poem, and pope. For points, the strongest plays are pimp and pomp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pimp and pomp, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pompeii 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 pompeii produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.