Hidden inside container sit container and crenation, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
container and crenation tie for the highest Scrabble score from container at 11 points. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in container: one comes from rearranging its letters, and container itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with container. For points, the strongest plays are container and crenation — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in container. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including reaction, actioner and anoretic.
Rearranging the letters in container produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient, certain, and contain. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including ancient, certain and contain.
Unscrambling container turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot and carton. For points, 51 words tie at 8 points, including action, cannot and carton.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in container. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater and inner. For points, 52 words tie at 7 points, including actor, cater and nicer.
Rearranging the letters in container produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cent. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including care, cart and cent.
Unscrambling container turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in container. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 22 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in container plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in container 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.
container 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 one sense for container. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
container is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing container unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are container and crenation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from container 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 container produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.