Unscramble PAYMENTS and you have 223 words, PAYMENTS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
P34A1Y43M34E1N12T1S1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from PAYMENTS split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 12 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2.
EMPTY, TYMPS and YMPES are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PAYMENTS, 12 points each. MEANS, TYPES and NAMES will look familiar.
TYMP, YMPE and YMPT share the top score of 11 among the 4-letter words from PAYMENTS. MANY, TYPE and EASY are the ones most people know.
60 3-letter words in PAYMENTS; 9 of them share the top score of 8. MAY, ANY and MAP are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PAYMENTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PA · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
What PAYMENTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PAYMENTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAYMENTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 223) | 167 | 222 | 160 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 55 of them: SYNAPTE, TYMPS, YMPES, ENSTAMP, TAPSMEN, TYMP, YMPE, YMPT, MANTY, MASTY, MEYNT, PYATS and 43 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: SAMEY, YEPS, SPAM, YAS, MES, PST and TE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: NESTY.
This word takes every letter of PAYMENTS plus a single extra one.