Hidden inside pigment sit pigment and temping, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EGIMNPT, PINTGEM or GEPTINM and you get the same 7 letters as PIGMENT: so the words from PIGMENT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pigment and temping tie for the highest Scrabble score from pigment at 12 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pigment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pigment itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pigment and temping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pigment. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tempi, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pigment produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mine and mint. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pigment turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, men and met. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pigment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pigment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pigment 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.
pigment 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for pigment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pigment is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pigment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pigment and temping, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pigment 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 pigment produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.