contrarian 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, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrarian is the highest-scoring word from contrarian, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contrarian — and it is contrarian itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrarian 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 word is carnation, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrarian. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carrotin and raincoat, 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 contrarian produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain. For points, the strongest plays are actinon, anticar, cantina, carotin, carrion, contain, cortina, ocarina, and tricorn — 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 contrarian turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, carrot, carton, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are acinar, action, aortic, arnica, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, carina, carrot, carton, cation, citron, contra, cortin, crania, craton, incant, racino, rancor, tannic, and trocar — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrarian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor and train. For points, the strongest plays are acari, acorn, actin, actor, ancon, antic, cairn, canna, canon, canto, carat, coati, conin, coria, cotan, narco, naric, octan, ontic, orcin, racon, tacan, taroc, tonic, toric, and triac — 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 contrarian produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, coin, corn, into, iron, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are acai, acro, acta, arco, cain, cant, carn, carr, cart, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coir, coni, conn, corn, cria, crit, icon, narc, orca, otic, taco, 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 contrarian turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, can, car, cat, con, cor, cot, oca, orc, roc, and tic — 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 contrarian. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, an, ar, at, in, it, na, no, oi, on, or, ta, ti, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contrarian plus one additional letter.
contrarian 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 one sense for contrarian. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contrarian is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrarian unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrarian, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrarian 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 contrarian produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.