contemn needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contemn is the highest-scoring word from contemn, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in contemn — and it is contemn itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contemn produces exactly one six-letter word: nocent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemn. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comet and comte, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contemn produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come, cone, none, note, once, and tone. For points, the strongest play is come — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contemn turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, men, met, net, not, one, and ten. For points, the strongest play is moc — worth 7 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 contemn. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in contemn plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contemn 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.
contemn 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 one sense for contemn. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
contemn is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contemn unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contemn, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contemn 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 contemn produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.