contiguous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contiguous is the highest-scoring word from contiguous, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contiguous — and it is contiguous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contiguous. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scooting and scouting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contiguous produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costing. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including costing, cogitos and congius.
Unscrambling contiguous turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts, and cousin. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including cogito, cogons and coigns.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contiguous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, count and scout. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cogon, coign and congo.
Rearranging the letters in contiguous produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cost. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contiguous turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and goo. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contiguous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contiguous plus one additional letter.
contiguous 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 5-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 contiguous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contiguous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contiguous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contiguous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contiguous 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 contiguous produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.