contradict 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, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contradict is the highest-scoring word from contradict, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contradict — and it is contradict itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contradict. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contract. For points, the strongest plays are cancroid and draconic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contradict produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contact. For points, the strongest plays are cactoid and octadic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contradict turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and carton. For points, the strongest play is accord — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 70 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contradict. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, attic and drain. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cacti, circa and coact.
Rearranging the letters in contradict produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and cart. For points, the strongest plays are coca and croc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contradict turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contradict. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contradict plus one additional letter.
contradict 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 four senses for contradict. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
contradict is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contradict unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contradict, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contradict 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 contradict produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 70 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.