Hidden inside continues sit continues and neustonic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 313 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continues and neustonic tie for the highest Scrabble score from continues at 11 points. The top 10 of 313 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in continues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and continues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continues. For points, the strongest plays are continues and neustonic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with continue and counties. For points, the strongest plays are continue, counties, and unctions — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in continues produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notices, section, and tension. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including notices, section and conines.
Unscrambling continues turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts and cousin. For points, 31 words tie at 8 points, including coitus, counts and cousin.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and cones. For points, 42 words tie at 7 points, including cents, coins and cones.
Rearranging the letters in continues produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including cent, coin and cone.
Unscrambling continues turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and cut. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including con, cue and cut.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in continues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in continues 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.
continues 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 ten senses for continues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
continues is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are continues and neustonic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from continues 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 continues produce 313 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.