Hidden inside contender sit contender and retconned, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contender and retconned tie for the highest Scrabble score from contender at 12 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in contender: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contender itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contender and retconned, 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 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contender. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is reconned, 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 contender produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centred, contend, credent, encoder, and encored, each 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 contender turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, recent, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are conned, corned, decent, decern, docent, encode, and recode — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cered, coden, coder, coned, cored, coted, credo, creed, and decor — 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 contender produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, cone, cord, core, corn, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, coed, cord, cred, 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 contender turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, dot, end, net, nor, not, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in contender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contender 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.
contender 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 one sense for contender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contender is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contender and retconned, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contender 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 contender produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.