pilgrims needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pilgrims is the highest-scoring word from pilgrims, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pilgrims — and it is pilgrims itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pilgrims produces exactly one seven-letter word: pilgrim. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilgrims. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls and grips. 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 pilgrims produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, grip, lips, pigs, rigs, rips, and slim. 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 pilgrims turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, pig, rig, rip, sip, and sir. 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pilgrims. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are mi 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 pilgrims 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.
pilgrims 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.
pilgrims is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pilgrims unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pilgrims, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pilgrims 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 pilgrims produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.