contrition 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, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrition is the highest-scoring word from contrition, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contrition — and it is contrition itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrition produces exactly one eight-letter word: intronic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contrition produces 6 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 coition, contort, nicotin, and noritic, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrition turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cotton and ironic. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including cotton, ironic and citrin.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including conin, conto and croon.
Rearranging the letters in contrition produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, corn and into. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including coin, corn and cion.
Unscrambling contrition turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor and not. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including con, coo and cor.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in contrition plus one additional letter.
contrition 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 contrition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
contrition is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrition, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrition 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 contrition produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.