Hidden inside contour sit contour, cornuto, and crouton, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contour, cornuto, and crouton tie for the highest Scrabble score from contour at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in contour: two come from rearranging its letters, and contour itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contour, cornuto, and crouton, 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 contour turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is croton, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count and court. For points, the strongest plays are conto, cornu, count, court, and croon — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contour produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corn, onto, root, torn, tour, and turn. For points, the strongest plays are coon, coot, corn, curn, curt, toco, torc, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contour turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, nor, not, nut, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are con, coo, cor, cot, cru, cur, cut, orc, and roc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contour. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are no, nu, on, or, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 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 contour and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
contour 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 four senses for contour. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
contour is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contour unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contour, cornuto, and crouton, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contour 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 contour produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.