payment needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MATENYP, PAYTENM or TEMPAYN and you get the same 7 letters as PAYMENT: so the words from PAYMENT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
payment is the highest-scoring word from payment, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in payment — and it is payment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling payment produces exactly one six-letter word: tympan. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in payment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty and meant. For points, the strongest play is empty — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in payment produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, many and mate. For points, the strongest plays are many, myna, paty, and type — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling payment turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and ape. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including may, pay and yep.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in payment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in payment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in payment and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
payment 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for payment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
payment is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing payment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is payment, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from payment 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 payment produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.