contestant 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, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contestant is the highest-scoring word from contestant, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contestant — and it is contestant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contestant produces exactly one nine-letter word: cotenants. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contestant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with constant. For points, the strongest plays are coattest, constant, contents, and cotenant — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contestant produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including contest, ancones and cantons.
Unscrambling contestant turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cannot and oceans. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including cannot, oceans and ancone.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contestant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coast and coats. For points, 43 words tie at 7 points, including cents, coast and coats.
Rearranging the letters in contestant produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and case.
Unscrambling contestant turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contestant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contestant plus one additional letter.
contestant 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 contestant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contestant is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contestant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contestant, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contestant 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 contestant produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.