Hidden inside contain sit actinon and contain, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actinon and contain tie for the highest Scrabble score from contain at 9 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in contain: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contain itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain. For points, the strongest plays are actinon and contain — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contain turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are action, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, incant, and tannic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contain. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actin, ancon, antic, canon, canto, coati, conin, cotan, octan, ontic, and tonic, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contain produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, into, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, conn, icon, otic, and taco — 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 contain turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, not, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cot, oca, and tic — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, at, in, it, na, no, oi, on, ta, ti, 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.
Swap a single tile in contain 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.
contain 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 six senses for contain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
contain is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actinon and contain, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contain 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 contain produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.