contend needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contend is the highest-scoring word from contend, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in contend — and it is contend itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contend turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conned and docent, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contend. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coden, coned, and coted, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contend produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, cone, done, none, note, and once. For points, the strongest plays are code, coed, and deco — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contend turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, dot, end, net, not, one, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 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 contend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 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 contend 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.
contend 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 six senses for contend. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
contend is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contend unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contend, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contend 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 contend produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.