continuous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continuous is the highest-scoring word from continuous, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in continuous — and it is continuous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling continuous turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continuos, contusion, and innocuous, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuous. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continuo and unctions, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in continuous produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nocuous, nuncios, suction and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling continuous turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts and cousin. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including coitus, counts and cousin.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, count and noons. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including coins, count and scout.
Rearranging the letters in continuous produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cost. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cons and cost.
Unscrambling continuous turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and its. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including con, cut and cis.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in continuous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
continuous 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 continuous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
continuous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing continuous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is continuous, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from continuous 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 continuous produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.