countermand needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 857 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
countermand is the highest-scoring word from countermand, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 857 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in countermand — and it is countermand itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling countermand produces exactly one ten-letter word: counterman. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling countermand turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mucronate, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countermand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with document. For points, the strongest plays are democrat, document, manucode, and romanced — 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 countermand produces 84 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counted, counter, and romance. For points, the strongest plays are caromed, comrade, condemn, decorum, decuman, and mercado — 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 countermand turns up 143 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, around, canned, cannot, carton, dancer, and donate. For points, the strongest plays are comade and mudcat — 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 206 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countermand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor, adore, armed, cared, cater, and count. For points, the strongest play is maced — 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 countermand produces 215 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom, aunt, auto, came, card, and care. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, camo, coma, come, corm, cram, mace, marc, and merc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling countermand turns up 135 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, and, ant, are, arm, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are cam, cum, mac, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in countermand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, do, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in countermand plus one additional letter.
countermand 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 5-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 countermand. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
countermand is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing countermand unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is countermand, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from countermand 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 countermand produce 857 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 33 eight-letter words, 84 seven-letter words, 143 six-letter words, 206 five-letter words, 215 four-letter words, 135 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.