contraltos needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 445 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contraltos is the highest-scoring word from contraltos, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 445 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contraltos — and it is contraltos itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contraltos turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are colorants and contralto, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contraltos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartoons and controls. For points, the strongest plays are cartoons, colorant, contorts, contrast, controls, coolants, corantos, coronals, locators, octanols, and ostracon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contraltos produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons, cartoon, control, cottons, and racoons. For points, the strongest plays are cantors, cartons, cartoon, coltans, consort, contort, contras, control, coolant, coranto, coronal, coronas, cottars, cottons, cratons, crotons, locator, octanol, octants, racoons, and scrotal — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contraltos turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, carton, colons, colors, cotton, racoon, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are acorns, actors, cantor, cantos, carols, carton, castor, claros, cloots, colons, colors, coltan, consol, contos, contra, corals, corona, costal, costar, cotans, cottar, cottas, cotton, craton, croons, croton, narcos, nostoc, octans, octant, racons, racoon, scrota, tarocs, and tracts — 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 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contraltos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, colas, colon, and color. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, acros, actor, ascon, ascot, calos, canso, canst, canto, cants, carls, carns, carol, carts, clans, claro, clast, clons, cloot, clots, coals, coast, coats, colas, colon, color, colts, conto, cools, coons, coots, coral, corns, costa, cotan, cotta, croon, locos, narco, narcs, octal, octan, orcas, oscar, racon, scant, scart, scatt, scoot, scorn, scran, tacos, tacts, talcs, taroc, tocos, torcs, and tract — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contraltos produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, ants, arts, last, loan, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are acro, acts, arco, arcs, lacs, loca, loco, locs, narc, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, scan, scar, scat, scot, soca, calo, cals, cans, cant, carl, carn, cars, cart, cast, cats, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, cols, colt, cons, cool, coon, coos, coot, corn, cors, cost, cots, taco, tact, talc, toco, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contraltos turns up 65 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, cal, can, car, cat, col, con, coo, cor, cos, cot, lac, loc, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contraltos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are al, an, ar, as, at, la, lo, 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.
contraltos 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 three senses for contraltos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contraltos is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contraltos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contraltos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contraltos 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 contraltos produce 445 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.