Hidden inside contagions sit cognations and contagions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cognations and contagions tie for the highest Scrabble score from contagions at 13 points. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in contagions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contagions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cognations and contagions, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contagions turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cognation, cognisant, contagion, and contangos, 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 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contains. For points, the strongest plays are agnostic, coasting, coatings, contango, cotingas, octagons, scanting, and scooting — each 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 contagions produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, casting, contain, costing, and nations. For points, the strongest plays are actings, canings, canting, casting, coating, cogitos, consign, costing, cotinga, gnostic, 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 contagions turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action, cannot, casino, giants, nation, and onions. For points, the strongest plays are acting, agonic, caning, casing, cogito, cogons, coigns, congas, congos, coning, cooing, cosign, coting, gascon, and incogs — 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, coins, gains, giant, goats, and noons. 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 contagions produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, coat, and coin. For points, the strongest plays are cigs, cogs, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contagions turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago, ant, can, cat, con, and gas. 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contagions plus one additional letter.
contagions 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 contagions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contagions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contagions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cognations and contagions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contagions 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 contagions produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.