Hidden inside contrite sit contrite and cornetti, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrite and cornetti tie for the highest Scrabble score from contrite at 10 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in contrite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contrite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contrite and cornetti, 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 contrite produces 7 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 cittern, cointer, cornett, cottier, noticer, and tonetic, 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 contrite turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erotic, notice, and rotten. For points, the strongest plays are citron, coiner, cornet, cortin, cotter, cretin, erotic, noetic, notice, orcein, recoin, retcon, and tricot — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer. For points, the strongest plays are cento, citer, conte, crone, nicer, octet, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, tinct, tonic, toric, and trice — 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 contrite produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, core, corn, into, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, cote, crit, etic, icon, nice, once, otic, rice, 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 contrite turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, net, nor, not, one, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cot, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, tec, 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 contrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, et, in, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, re, te, 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.
Swap a single tile in contrite 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.
contrite 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 one sense for contrite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
contrite is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contrite and cornetti, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contrite 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 contrite produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.