contested needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contested is the highest-scoring word from contested, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contested — and it is contested itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contested produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest and detects. For points, the strongest plays are cestode, descent, detects, docents, encodes, escoted, scented, 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 contested turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costed, decent, detect, second, and tested. For points, the strongest plays are censed, codens, costed, decent, detect, docent, encode, 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, cones, needs, notes, scene, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cedes, coden, codes, coeds, coned, coted, decos, and scend — 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 contested produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, cone, cons, cost, does, and done. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, cods, coed, 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 contested turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, dot, end, net, not, one, and see. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contested. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contested plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contested and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
contested 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 2-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 contested. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contested is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contested unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contested, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contested 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 contested produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.