Hidden inside contage sit coagent and cognate, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble COTENGA, GACENTO or COTEGAN and you get the same 7 letters as CONTAGE: so the words from CONTAGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CONTAGE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to COAGENT and COGNATE.
coagent and cognate tie for the highest Scrabble score from contage at 10 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in contage produces 2 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 coagent and cognate, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, ocean, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are conga and conge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contage produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, cent and coat. For points, the strongest play is cage — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contage turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ago. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in contage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contage 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coagent and cognate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contage 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 contage produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.