contrabass needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 408 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrabass is the highest-scoring word from contrabass, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 408 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contrabass — and it is contrabass itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrabass. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is acrobats, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contrabass produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons. For points, the strongest plays are acrobat, carbons, corbans, and scarabs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrabass turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, across and actors. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including cobras, bacons and bancos.
There are 116 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrabass. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, actor and bacon. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including bacon, cobra and crabs.
Rearranging the letters in contrabass produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and arts. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including cabs, crab and banc.
Unscrambling contrabass turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and art. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrabass. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
contrabass 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 3-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 contrabass. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
contrabass is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrabass unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrabass, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrabass 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 contrabass produce 408 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 116 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.