Hidden inside continued sit continued and unnoticed, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continued and unnoticed tie for the highest Scrabble score from continued at 12 points. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in continued: one comes from rearranging its letters, and continued itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continued. For points, the strongest plays are continued and unnoticed — each worth 12 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 continued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continue. For points, the strongest plays are eduction and uncoined — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in continued produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counted and noticed. For points, the strongest plays are conduit, contend, counted, ctenoid, deontic, noctuid, and noticed — each 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 continued turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, intend, notice, undone, and united. For points, the strongest plays are codein, coedit, coined, conned, docent, induce, induct, and uniced — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, cutie, donut, tuned, and union. For points, the strongest plays are cited, coden, coned, coted, coude, dicot, douce, dunce, edict, and educt — 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 continued produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cute, dice, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, coed, cued, deco, dice, duce, duci, duct, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling continued turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, die, dot, due, and end. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in continued plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in continued 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.
continued 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 one sense for continued. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
continued is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continued unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are continued and unnoticed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from continued 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 continued produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.