contract needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contract is the highest-scoring word from contract, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contract — and it is contract itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contract produces exactly one seven-letter word: contact. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contract turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton. For points, the strongest plays are cantor, carton, contra, cottar, craton, and octant — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contract. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor. For points, the strongest play is coact — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contract produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, corn, taco, and torn. For points, the strongest plays are coca and croc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contract turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, art, can, car, cat, and con. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, can, car, cat, con, cor, cot, oca, orc, and roc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contract. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, at, na, no, on, or, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in contract and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
contract 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 twelve senses for contract. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contract is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contract unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contract, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contract 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 contract produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.