contumely needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contumely is the highest-scoring word from contumely, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in contumely — and it is contumely itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contumely produces exactly one eight-letter word: uncomely. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contumely produces exactly one seven-letter word: noctule. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contumely turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with column and county. For points, the strongest plays are comely and lyceum — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contumely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, count, cutey, lemon, melon, money, and motel. For points, the strongest play is cymol — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contumely produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, clue, come, cone, cult, cute, and lent. For points, the strongest play is cyme — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contumely turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, let, lot, men, and met. For points, the strongest play is myc — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contumely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, my, no, on, oy, to, and um. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 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 contumely 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.
contumely 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 one sense for contumely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
contumely is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contumely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contumely, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contumely 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 contumely produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 17 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.