contraband needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contraband is the highest-scoring word from contraband, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contraband — and it is contraband itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contraband produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abandon. For points, the strongest play is acrobat — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contraband turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aboard, cannot, and carton. For points, the strongest plays are carbon and corban — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contraband. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, actor and bacon. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including bacon, cobra and banco.
Rearranging the letters in contraband produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with band, barn and boat. For points, the strongest plays are banc, carb, and crab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contraband turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, and and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contraband. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contraband plus one additional letter.
contraband 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 two senses for contraband. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
contraband is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contraband unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contraband, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contraband 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 contraband produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.