contempts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contempts is the highest-scoring word from contempts, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contempts — and it is contempts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contempts produces exactly one eight-letter word: contempt. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contempts produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest. For points, the strongest play is coempts — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contempts turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tempts. For points, the strongest plays are coempt and compts — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contempts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, comes, cones, notes, opens, poems, and poets. For points, the strongest plays are comps and compt — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contempts produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come, cone, cons, cops, cost, and mops. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contempts turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, men, met, mop, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, moc, mop, pec, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contempts. 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, om, op, pe, and po — 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 contempts 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.
contempts 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 four senses for contempts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
contempts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contempts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contempts, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contempts 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 contempts produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.