Hidden inside pigments sit emptings and pigments, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emptings and pigments tie for the highest Scrabble score from pigments at 13 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pigments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pigments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emptings and pigments, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pigments produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are empings, pigment, and temping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pigments turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is emping, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pigments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with items, mints, penis, spent, spine, sting, and temps. For points, the strongest play is gimps — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pigments produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, item, mine, mint, nest, nets, and pens. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pigments turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, men, met, net, pen, and pet. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pigments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in pigments 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.
pigments 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 pigments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
pigments is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pigments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emptings and pigments, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pigments 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 pigments produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.