imperial needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
imperial is the highest-scoring word from imperial, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in imperial — and it is imperial itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in imperial produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impaler, impearl, imperia and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling imperial turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ampler, impair, impale and 5 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with email, lamer, maple, and prime. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including maple, prime and ample.
Rearranging the letters in imperial produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lame, lamp and leap. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including lamp, ramp and impi.
Unscrambling imperial turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and ape. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in imperial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am and me. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in imperial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in imperial and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
imperial 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for imperial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
imperial is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing imperial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is imperial, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from imperial 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 imperial produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.