contouring needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contouring is the highest-scoring word from contouring, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contouring — and it is contouring itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contouring turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is trouncing, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contouring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counting. For points, the strongest plays are counting, courting, and crooning — 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 contouring produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rooting, turning, and unicorn. For points, the strongest plays are corning and trucing — 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 contouring turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curing and tuning. For points, the strongest plays are cogito, congou, coning, cooing, coring, coting, and curing — 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 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contouring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, court, groin, onion, and union. For points, the strongest plays are cogon, coign, congo, corgi, cuing, incog, and orgic — 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 contouring produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, corn, into, iron, noon, onto, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are cion, coin, coir, coni, conn, coon, coot, corn, crit, curn, curt, icon, otic, toco, torc, unci, unco, and uric — 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 contouring turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, goo, got, gun, gut, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contouring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contouring plus one additional letter.
contouring 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.
contouring is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contouring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contouring, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contouring 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 contouring produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.