contrariwise needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1458 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrariwise is the highest-scoring word from contrariwise, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1458 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in contrariwise — and it is contrariwise itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contrariwise produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contraries and criterions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrariwise turns up 17 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reactions. For points, the strongest plays are cowriters and scrawnier — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 77 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrariwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, creators and reaction. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including aircrews, airscrew and careworn.
Rearranging the letters in contrariwise produces 189 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, carries and carrots. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including aircrew, cowiest and cowries.
Unscrambling contrariwise turns up 314 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors and carrot. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including crowns, cowers and cowier.
There are 379 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrariwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cares and carts. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including crews, crown and screw.
Rearranging the letters in contrariwise produces 307 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including cows, crew and caws.
Unscrambling contrariwise turns up 139 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are caw and cow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrariwise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
contrariwise 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 2-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 contrariwise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
contrariwise is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrariwise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrariwise, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrariwise 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 contrariwise produce 1458 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 17 nine-letter words, 77 eight-letter words, 189 seven-letter words, 314 six-letter words, 379 five-letter words, 307 four-letter words, 139 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.