Unscramble IMBUEMENT to get 136 words. IMBUEMENT itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
I1M34B34U12E1M34E1N12T1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from IMBUEMENT split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 10 with 6, 11 with 5, 51 with 4, 43 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 8 letters.
BITUMEN is the only one of the 7-letter words made with IMBUEMENT letters; it scores 11 points.
Of the 51 4-letter words you get when you unscramble IMBUEMENT, 4 score 8 points, the group's best. TIME, BEEN and ITEM are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of IMBUEMENT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IM · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BITUMEN (11 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
IMBUEMENT is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMBUEMENT itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 136) | 109 | 135 | 102 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MNEME, NEEMB, MUNITE, NIMB, BENET, MEINT, BEIN, BENI, BETE, BIEN, MEIN, MENE and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: IMBUEMENT, MEME, TUM, TEIN, UNI, UTE and TE, 7 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: BINT.
These 2 words take every letter of IMBUEMENT plus a single extra one.