contemns needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contemns is the highest-scoring word from contemns, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contemns — and it is contemns itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contemns produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is contemn, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contemns turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comets, comtes, and socmen, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, comes, cones, notes, scent, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are comes, 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 contemns produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come, cone, cons, cost, most, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are come and mocs — each 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 contemns turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, men, met, net, not, one, and set. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, so, 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.
Swap a single tile in contemns and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
contemns 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 contemns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contemns is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contemns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contemns, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contemns 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 contemns produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.