Hidden inside contagion sit cognation and contagion, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cognation and contagion tie for the highest Scrabble score from contagion at 12 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in contagion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contagion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cognation and contagion, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is contango, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contagion produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain. For points, the strongest plays are canting, coating, cotinga, and octagon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contagion turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are acting, agonic, caning, cogito, coning, cooing, and coting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, onion, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cogon, coign, conga, congo, and incog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contagion produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, gain, goat, into, noon, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, conn, coon, coot, icon, otic, taco, and toco — 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 contagion turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago, ant, can, cat, con, and goo. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contagion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contagion and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
contagion 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for contagion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contagion is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contagion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cognation and contagion, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contagion 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 contagion produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.