Unscramble ALMPAI: Letters, Definition, and Answer
ALMPAI unscrambles to IMPALA, a 6-letter noun from Sunday Jumble Answers Today: October 4, 2026. Repeated letters: A (×2).
How to crack ALMPAI
IMP at the front and -ALA at the end (gala, koala): IMP + ALA. The two A's frame the L, which is the step most solvers miss.
Letter map: ALMPAI → IMPALA
| Position in IMPALA | Letter | Tile in ALMPAI | Circled for the caption |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | 6 | — |
| 2 | M | 3 | — |
| 3 | P | 4 | — |
| 4 | A | 1 | Yes |
| 5 | L | 2 | Yes |
| 6 | A | 5 | Yes |
What does IMPALA mean?
IMPALA (noun): a slender African antelope known for its reddish-brown coat and ability to leap great distances. Example: “A pride of lions watched the impala graze near the watering hole.”
Similar: antelope, gazelle, buck.
Did you know? The Chevrolet Impala was named after the animal in 1958 to suggest speed and grace, and the car's early badges even featured a leaping impala.
Using IMPALA in a sentence
IMPALA has two plurals in common use: impalas, and the unchanged impala you'll see in safari guides, as in 'a herd of impala', the same way people say a herd of deer. The name comes from Zulu, and it's stressed on the middle syllable, im-PAH-luh. Wildlife writers usually pair it with ram or ewe, and only the rams carry the long, lyre-shaped horns. In everyday writing it mostly turns up in sentences about game drives and predators: 'A lone impala stood frozen at the edge of the clearing.'
How IMPALA fits the puzzle
IMPALA circles A, L and A, which go into CLEARLY and A.
Its circled letters feed the caption answer, CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA.
Other words in ALMPAI
31 shorter dictionary words can be made from a subset of these tiles:
LAMIALIMPAMILPAALMAAMIALAMALAMPLIMALIMPMAILPAILPALMPIALPIMAAALAILAIMALAALPAMAAMIAMPIMPLAMLAPLIPMAPMILPALPAMPIA
The rest of this puzzle
- OIHDAR → HAIRDO (the style in which a person's hair has been cut or arranged)
- HROCCS → SCORCH (to burn the surface of something slightly so as to discolor or damage it)
- YPSELE → SLEEPY (feeling or showing a need or desire for sleep)
- NROIDO → INDOOR (situated, used, or done inside a building rather than in the open air)
- YERGES → GEYSER (a hot spring in which water intermittently boils and erupts, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air)
- ALAAIDCORLEDOGEY → CLEARLY A GOOD IDEA (used to say that, in hindsight, a choice or action was obviously the smart or sensible one)
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