Hidden inside continua sit continua and countian, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continua and countian tie for the highest Scrabble score from continua at 10 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in continua: one comes from rearranging its letters, and continua itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continua and countian, 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 continua produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auction and contain. For points, the strongest plays are actinon, auction, caution, contain, and unction — 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 continua turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are action, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, incant, nuncio, tannic, toucan, and tunica — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continua. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count and union. For points, the strongest plays are actin, ancon, antic, canon, canto, coati, conin, cotan, count, cunit, cutin, octan, ontic, tonic, tunic, uncia, and unica — 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 continua produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, coat, coin, into, taco, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, conn, icon, otic, taco, unci, and unco — 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 continua turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, cut, and not. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cot, cut, oca, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continua. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, at, in, it, na, no, nu, oi, on, ta, ti, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in continua and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
continua 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.
continua is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continua unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are continua and countian, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from continua 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 continua produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.