Hidden inside contours sit contours, cornutos, croutons and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contours, cornutos, croutons and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from contours at 10 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in contours: three come from rearranging its letters, and contours 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 contours, cornutos, croutons, and outscorn, each 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 contours produces 6 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 consort, contour, cornuto, crotons, and crouton, each 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 contours turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counts and courts. For points, the strongest plays are contos, cornus, counts, courts, croons, croton, and nostoc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corns, count, court, roots, scout, tours, and turns. For points, the strongest plays are conto, conus, coons, coots, corns, cornu, count, court, croon, crust, curns, curst, scoot, scorn, scour, scout, tocos, torcs, and uncos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contours produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons, corn, cost, cuts, nuts, onto, and ours. For points, the strongest plays are cons, coon, coos, coot, corn, cors, cost, cots, crus, curn, curs, curt, cuts, orcs, rocs, scot, scut, toco, torc, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contours turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, nor, not, nut, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are con, coo, cor, cos, cot, cru, cur, cut, orc, roc, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are no, nu, on, or, os, so, to, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 contours 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.
contours 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for contours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
contours is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contours, cornutos, croutons, and outscorn, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contours 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 contours produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.