contending needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contending is the highest-scoring word from contending, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contending — and it is contending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innocent. For points, the strongest play is encoding — 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 contending produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noticed and tending. For points, the strongest plays are coigned and condign — 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 contending turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, ending, intend, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are ceding, coding, and geodic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing. For points, the strongest plays are cited, coden, coign, coned, conge, coted, dicot, edict, genic, and incog — 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 contending produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, dice, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, coed, deco, dice, iced, and odic — 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 contending turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dig, dog, dot, ego, and end. For points, the strongest plays are cig, cod, cog, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, gi, go, id, 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.
contending 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
contending is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contending, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contending 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 contending produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.