contenders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 529 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contenders is the highest-scoring word from contenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 529 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contenders — and it is contenders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contenders turns up 8 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are condenser, consented, 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 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contenders. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are censored, condense, contends, corseted, encoders, escorted, necrosed, reconned, seconder, and sectored, 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 contenders produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers. For points, the strongest plays are centred, cestode, contend, credent, crested, decerns, descent, docents, encoder, encodes, encored, escoted, recodes, scented, scorned, and seconde — 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 contenders turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, costed, decent, desert, enters, recent, and rented. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, codens, coders, conned, corned, costed, credos, creeds, decent, decern, decors, docent, encode, recode, scored, screed, and second — 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 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, cones, cords, cores, corns, and deers. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cered, coden, coder, codes, coeds, coned, cords, cored, coted, credo, creds, creed, decor, decos, scend, and scrod — 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 contenders produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, cone, cons, cord, core, and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, cods, coed, cord, cred, deco, and docs — 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 contenders turns up 66 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contenders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, so, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contenders plus one additional letter.
contenders 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 contenders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contenders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contenders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contenders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contenders 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 contenders produce 529 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.