Hidden inside contingent sit contenting and contingent, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contenting and contingent tie for the highest Scrabble score from contingent at 13 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in contingent: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contingent itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contenting and contingent, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contingent produces exactly one nine-letter word: continent. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contingent. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: innocent, 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 contingent produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is conning, 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 contingent turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gotten and notice. For points, the strongest plays are cogent, coigne, coning, and coting — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contingent. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coign, conge, genic, and incog, 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 contingent produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, gone, into, nice, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, cote, etic, icon, nice, once, and otic — 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 contingent turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ego, get, got, ice, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contingent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contingent plus one additional letter.
contingent 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 five senses for contingent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contingent is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contingent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contenting and contingent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contingent 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 contingent produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.