Hidden inside rumples sit lumpers and rumples, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SRUMPLE, PERSLUM or PULSMER and you get the same 7 letters as RUMPLES: so the words from RUMPLES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lumpers and rumples tie for the highest Scrabble score from rumples at 11 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in rumples: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rumples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumpers and rumples, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rumples turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumper, plumes, and rumple, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rumples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lumps, lures and purse. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including lumps, sperm and perms.
Rearranging the letters in rumples produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lump, lure and plus. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including lump, perm and plum.
Unscrambling rumples turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, rep and rum. For points, the strongest play is ump — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rumples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, up, and us. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in rumples plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rumples and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
rumples 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 three senses for rumples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
rumples is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rumples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lumpers and rumples, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rumples 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 rumples produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.