Hidden inside continual sit continual and inoculant, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continual and inoculant tie for the highest Scrabble score from continual at 11 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in continual: one comes from rearranging its letters, and continual itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continual and inoculant, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continual. 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 continual produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auction and contain. For points, the strongest plays are actinon, altcoin, auction, cannoli, caution, contain, inocula, linocut, lunatic, uncinal, 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 continual turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are action, alnico, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, catlin, citola, coital, coltan, incant, incult, nuncio, oilcan, tannic, tincal, toluic, toucan, tunica, uncial, and uncoil — 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 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continual. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, union, and until. For points, the strongest plays are actin, ancon, antic, aulic, canon, canto, clout, coati, colin, conin, cotan, count, culti, cunit, cutin, linac, lotic, nicol, octal, octan, oculi, ontic, tical, 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 continual produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, coat, coin, cola, cult, and into. For points, the strongest plays are cain, calo, cant, caul, ciao, cion, clan, clit, clon, clot, coal, coat, coil, coin, cola, colt, coni, conn, cult, icon, laic, loca, loci, otic, taco, talc, 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 continual turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, cut, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are act, cal, can, cat, col, con, cot, cut, lac, loc, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continual. 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, al, an, at, in, it, la, li, lo, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in continual plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in continual and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
continual 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 two senses for continual. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
continual is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continual unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are continual and inoculant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from continual 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 continual produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.