contiguity needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contiguity is the highest-scoring word from contiguity, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contiguity — and it is contiguity itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contiguity produces exactly one eight-letter word: tonicity. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contiguity produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cutting. For points, the strongest play is outcity — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contiguity turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with county. For points, the strongest play is coying — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contiguity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, tying, and young. For points, the strongest play is yogic — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contiguity produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, coin and into. For points, the strongest plays are city and cony — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contiguity turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and got. For points, the strongest plays are coy and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contiguity. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
contiguity 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 one sense for contiguity. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
contiguity is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contiguity unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contiguity, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contiguity 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 contiguity produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.