contrive 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, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrive is the highest-scoring word from contrive, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in contrive — and it is contrive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contrive produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with convert. For points, the strongest plays are convert, corvine, and evictor — 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 contrive turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erotic and notice. For points, the strongest plays are corvet, covert, covine, novice, vector, victor, and voicer — 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cover, nicer, voice, and voter. For points, the strongest plays are civet, coven, cover, covet, covin, evict, and voice — 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 contrive produces 62 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 cove and vice — 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 contrive turns up 37 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 rev, vet, vie, vin, and voe — each worth 6 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 contrive. 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 contrive 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.
contrive 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 three senses for contrive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
contrive is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrive, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrive 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 contrive produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.