contents needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contents is the highest-scoring word from contents, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contents — and it is contents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contents produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest. For points, the strongest plays are consent, content, and contest — 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 contents turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centos, contes, nocent, nonces, and octets, 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cones, notes, scent, stone, tents, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, cones, conns, conte, coset, cotes, escot, nonce, octet, oncet, scent, and scone — 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 contents produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, cost, nest, nets, and none. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cone, conn, cons, cost, cote, cots, ecos, once, scot, sect, and tecs — 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 contents turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net, not, one, set, son, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are con, cos, cot, eco, sec, soc, and tec — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, ne, no, oe, on, os, so, te, 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in contents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contents and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
contents 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 two senses for contents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
contents is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contents, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contents 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 contents produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.