contacts needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contacts is the highest-scoring word from contacts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contacts — and it is contacts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contacts produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: contact, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contacts turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are accost and coacts, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, tacos, and toast. For points, the strongest plays are coact and cocas — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contacts produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, coat, and cons. For points, the strongest play is coca — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contacts turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, not, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cos, cot, oca, sac, 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 contacts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are an, as, at, na, no, on, os, so, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in contacts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contacts 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.
contacts 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 eleven senses for contacts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contacts is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contacts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contacts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contacts 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 contacts produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.