contemptuously needs no unscrambling at all — the fourteen-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contemptuously is the highest-scoring word from contemptuously, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one fourteen-letter word uses the letters in contemptuously — and it is contemptuously itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contemptuously produces exactly one twelve-letter word: contemptuous. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contemptuously turns up 16 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is coemploys, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuously. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coemploy and myoscope, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contemptuously produces 139 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with columns, consult, consume, contest, coolest, costume, and cottons. For points, the strongest play is compony — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contemptuously turns up 238 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closet, colons, column, cotton, counts, and county. For points, the strongest plays are clumpy and comply — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 332 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lemon, loose, louse, lousy, lumps, melon, and melts. For points, the strongest plays are lumpy, mopey, myope, plumy, spumy, copsy, coypu, cymes, cymol, empty, umpty, and yomps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contemptuously produces 303 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets, lose, lost, lots, lump, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are mopy, mycs, yomp, copy, and cyme — each 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 contemptuously turns up 138 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, cue, cup, cut, let, and lot. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, no, on, oy, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
contemptuously 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 6-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 contemptuously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
contemptuously is the only fourteen-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contemptuously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contemptuously, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contemptuously 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 contemptuously produce 1244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 fourteen-letter word, 1 twelve-letter word, 16 nine-letter words, 45 eight-letter words, 139 seven-letter words, 238 six-letter words, 332 five-letter words, 303 four-letter words, 138 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.