continuances needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 705 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continuances is the highest-scoring word from continuances, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 705 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in continuances — and it is continuances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling continuances produces exactly one eleven-letter word: continuance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in continuances produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is nonascetic, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling continuances turns up 12 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with announces and continues. For points, the strongest plays are encaustic, oscitance, and succinate — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accounts, announce, auctions, connects, contains, continue, and counties. For points, the strongest plays are accounts, acetonic, acoustic, cocaines, coenacts, conceits, concents, connects, cosecant, and cuneatic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in continuances produces 76 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accents, account, actions, ancient, auction, cocaine, and connect. For points, the strongest plays are accents, account, ascetic, canonic, caustic, cocaine, cocains, coenact, conceit, concent, concise, connect, oceanic, and ocicats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling continuances turns up 139 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accent, accuse, action, cannot, casino, coitus, and counts. For points, the strongest plays are accent, accost, accuse, acetic, cactus, cantic, caseic, coacts, cocain, conics, ocicat, scenic, sconce, siccan, and stucco — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos, cause, cents, coast, coats, and coins. For points, the strongest plays are cacti, cisco, coact, cocas, conic, cosec, cusec, and secco — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in continuances produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, auto, cans, and case. For points, the strongest plays are ceca and coca — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling continuances turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ate, can, cat, con, and cue. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, can, cat, cis, con, cos, cot, cue, cut, eco, ecu, ice, oca, sac, 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, no, nu, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, te, ti, to, un, us, 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.
continuances 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 6-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 continuances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
continuances is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continuances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is continuances, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from continuances 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 continuances produce 705 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 12 nine-letter words, 40 eight-letter words, 76 seven-letter words, 139 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.