pygmies needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 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.
pygmies is the highest-scoring word from pygmies, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pygmies — and it is pygmies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pygmies. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gimpy and pigmy, 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 pygmies produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gyms, pies, and pigs. For points, the strongest plays are gyms and gyps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pygmies turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gym, pie, pig, sip, spy, yep, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are gym and gyp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pygmies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 pygmies 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.
pygmies 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 two senses for pygmies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
pygmies is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pygmies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pygmies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pygmies 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 pygmies produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.