continents 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, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continents is the highest-scoring word from continents, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in continents — and it is continents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling continents turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continent, innocents, and noninsect, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innocent. For points, the strongest plays are contents, innocent, stenotic, and tonetics — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in continents produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest, notices, section, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are conines, consent, content, contest, incents, neonics, notices, scottie, section, and tonetic — 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 continents turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicest, notice, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are centos, cestoi, conies, conine, conins, contes, cosine, icones, incent, incest, insect, neonic, nicest, nocent, noetic, nonces, notice, octets, oscine, tincts, tocsin, and tonics — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, nines, noise, notes, and scent. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, cesti, cines, cions, cites, coins, cones, conin, conns, conte, coset, cosie, cotes, escot, etics, icons, nonce, octet, oncet, ontic, scent, scion, scone, since, sonic, stoic, tinct, and tonic — 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 continents produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, cost, ices, and into. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cine, cion, cist, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, cons, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, once, otic, scot, sect, sice, tecs, and tics — 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 continents turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, not, one, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cos, cot, eco, ice, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, te, ti, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in continents plus one additional letter.
continents 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for continents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
continents is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is continents, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from continents 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 continents produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.