contracts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contracts is the highest-scoring word from contracts, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contracts — and it is contracts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contracts. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: contacts and contract, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contracts produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons and contact. For points, the strongest play is contact — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contracts turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, carton, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are accost, coacts, and corsac — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contracts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, corns, roast, and start. For points, the strongest plays are coact, cocas, and crocs — each 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 contracts produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, arts, cans, cars, cart, and cast. 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 contracts turns up 45 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, cos, cot, oca, orc, roc, sac, and soc — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contracts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, as, at, na, no, on, or, os, so, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contracts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contracts and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
contracts 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 contracts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contracts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contracts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contracts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contracts 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 contracts produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.