mayhap needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mayhap is the highest-scoring word from mayhap, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in mayhap — and it is mayhap itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mayhap turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha and ham. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mayhap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and ay. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in mayhap and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mayhap 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in mayhap carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for mayhap. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
mayhap is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mayhap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mayhap, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mayhap 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 mayhap produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.