contumacy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contumacy is the highest-scoring word from contumacy, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contumacy — and it is contumacy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contumacy produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with account. For points, the strongest play is caconym — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contumacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count and mount. For points, the strongest play is yucca — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contumacy produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt and auto. For points, the strongest play is cyma — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contumacy turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and any. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contumacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
contumacy 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for contumacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
contumacy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contumacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contumacy, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contumacy 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 contumacy produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.