Hidden inside contravene sit contravene and covenanter, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 361 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contravene and covenanter tie for the highest Scrabble score from contravene at 15 points. The top 10 of 361 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in contravene: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contravene itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contravene and covenanter, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contravene. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entrance. For points, the strongest plays are convener and covenant — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contravene produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with convert and veteran. For points, the strongest plays are centavo, convene, convent, convert, coveter, and overact — 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 contravene turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cannot, carton, center, create, neater, recent, and tavern. For points, the strongest plays are avocet, carven, cavern, cavort, corvee, corvet, covert, craven, octave, and vector — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contravene. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carve, cater, cover, eaten, enter, and event. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, coven, cover, covet, crave, and varec — 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 contravene produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart, cave, cent, coat, cone, and core. For points, the strongest plays are cave and cove — 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 contravene turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, are, art, ate, can, and car. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contravene. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, no, oe, on, or, re, ta, te, 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.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in contravene plus one additional letter.
contravene 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for contravene. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
contravene is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contravene unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contravene and covenanter, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contravene 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 contravene produce 361 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.