figments needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
figments is the highest-scoring word from figments, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in figments — and it is figments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling figments produces exactly one seven-letter word: figment. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling figments turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finest. For points, the strongest plays are feigns and feting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in figments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gifts, items and mints. For points, the strongest plays are feign and gifts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in figments produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fist and fits. For points, the strongest play is fems — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling figments turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, get and its. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in figments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in figments 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.
figments 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 one sense for figments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
figments is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing figments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is figments, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from figments 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 figments produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.