contrives needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 510 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contrives is the highest-scoring word from contrives, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 510 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contrives — and it is contrives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with converts and investor. For points, the strongest plays are coinvest, contrive, converts, evictors, and vortices — 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 contrives produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with convert, notices, section, and version. For points, the strongest plays are convert, corvets, corvine, costive, coverts, covines, evictor, novices, vectors, victors, and voicers — 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 contrives turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with covers, erotic, invest, nicest, notice, sector, and senior. For points, the strongest plays are civets, corves, corvet, covens, covers, covert, covets, covine, covins, evicts, novice, scrive, vector, victor, voicer, and voices — 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 150 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, cover, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are civet, coven, cover, coves, covet, covin, evict, vices, voces, 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 contrives produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, core, corn, and cost. 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 contrives turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, vet, vie, vin, vis, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contrives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contrives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contrives and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
contrives 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 contrives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
contrives is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contrives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contrives, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contrives 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 contrives produce 510 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 150 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.