contention needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contention is the highest-scoring word from contention, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contention — and it is contention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contention produces exactly one nine-letter word: continent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innocent. For points, the strongest plays are innocent and nontonic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contention 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 words are connote, content, coontie, and tonetic, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contention turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cotton and notice. For points, the strongest plays are conine, cootie, cotton, incent, neocon, neonic, nocent, noetic, and notice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, the strongest plays are cento, conin, conte, conto, nonce, octet, oncet, ontic, tinct, and tonic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contention produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, into, nice, nine, and none. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, coon, coot, cote, etic, icon, nice, once, otic, and toco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contention turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, net, not, one, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are con, coo, cot, eco, ice, tec, and tic — each worth 5 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 contention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, et, in, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 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 contention plus one additional letter.
contention 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for contention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contention is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contention, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contention 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 contention produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.