pygmy needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 4 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pygmy is the highest-scoring word from pygmy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 4 of 4 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in pygmy — and it is pygmy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pygmy turns up 2 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gym. 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.
Unscrambling pygmy produces exactly one two-letter word: my. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pygmy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
pygmy 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 1-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 pygmy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
pygmy is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pygmy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pygmy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pygmy 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 pygmy produce 4 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.