Hidden inside contusion sit continuos and contusion, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 170 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
continuos and contusion tie for the highest Scrabble score from contusion at 11 points. The top 10 of 170 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in contusion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contusion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continuos and contusion, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contusion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are continuo and unctions, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contusion produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nuncios, suction, and unction, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contusion turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, counts and cousin. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including coitus, counts and cousin.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contusion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, count and noons. For points, 25 words tie at 7 points, including coins, count and scout.
Rearranging the letters in contusion produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cost. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cons and cost.
Unscrambling contusion turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and its. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including con, cut and cis.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contusion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contusion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contusion 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.
contusion 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 contusion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
contusion is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contusion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are continuos and contusion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contusion 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 contusion produce 170 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.