contended needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contended is the highest-scoring word from contended, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contended — and it is contended itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contended produces 5 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 encoded, 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 contended turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decent and tended. For points, the strongest play is decode — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are ceded and coded — 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 contended produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, cone, deed, done, need, and none. For points, the strongest plays are cede, 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 contended turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, dot, end, net, not, odd, and one. 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 contended. 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 contended 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.
contended 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.
contended is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contended, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contended 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 contended produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.