contrary needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrary is the highest-scoring word from contrary, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contrary — and it is contrary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contrary produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carroty and carryon, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contrary turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrot and carton. For points, the strongest play is crayon — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor and carry. For points, the strongest plays are canty, carny, carry, corny, crony, cyano, cyton, and oracy — 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 contrary produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, corn, taco, torn, and tray. For points, the strongest plays are cony, cory, cyan, and racy — 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 contrary turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, any, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and cry — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, ay, no, on, or, and oy. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in contrary and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
contrary 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for contrary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contrary is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrary, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrary 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 contrary produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.