blimp needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blimp is the highest-scoring word from blimp, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in blimp — and it is blimp itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blimp produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blip, limb, and limp, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blimp turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip. For points, the strongest plays are imp and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blimp. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bi, mi, and pi, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in blimp plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blimp and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
blimp 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 two senses for blimp. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
blimp is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blimp unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blimp, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blimp 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 blimp produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.