contrivers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 577 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrivers is the highest-scoring word from contrivers, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 577 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in contrivers — and it is contrivers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrivers turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contriver and contrives, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrivers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with converts and investor. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including converts, coinvest and contrive.
Rearranging the letters in contrivers produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with convert, corners and notices. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including convert, corvets and corvine.
Unscrambling contrivers turns up 125 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, covers and erotic. For points, 16 words tie at 11 points, including covers, voices and civets.
There are 162 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrivers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and cones. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including cover, voice and civet.
Rearranging the letters in contrivers produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are cove and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contrivers turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and its. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including vet, rev and sev.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrivers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
contrivers 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 contrivers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
contrivers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrivers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrivers, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrivers 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 contrivers produce 577 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 125 six-letter words, 162 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.