contagious needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 451 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contagious is the highest-scoring word from contagious, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 451 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contagious — and it is contagious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auctions. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including agnostic, coasting and coatings.
Rearranging the letters in contagious produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, auction and casting. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including casting, causing and costing.
Unscrambling contagious turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action and casino. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including acting, agonic and casing.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and coast. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including acing, cogon and coign.
Rearranging the letters in contagious produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and anus. For points, the strongest plays are cigs, cogs, guac, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contagious turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contagious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
contagious 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 two senses for contagious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contagious is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contagious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contagious, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contagious 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 contagious produce 451 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.