contemptuous needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 562 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contemptuous is the highest-scoring word from contemptuous, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 562 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in contemptuous — and it is contemptuous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contemptuous turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is contempts, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuous. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compotes, computes, contempo, and contempt, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contemptuous produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consume, contest and costume. For points, 7 words tie at 13 points, including coempts, compone and compose.
Unscrambling contemptuous turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cotton, counts and coupon. For points, the strongest plays are coempt, compos, and compts — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 144 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, comes and cones. For points, the strongest plays are compo, comps, and compt — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contemptuous produces 170 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, moon and moos. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contemptuous turns up 95 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and cue. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cop, cup and mop.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contemptuous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no and on. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and up.
contemptuous 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 6-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 contemptuous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
contemptuous is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contemptuous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contemptuous, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contemptuous 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 contemptuous produce 562 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 144 five-letter words, 170 four-letter words, 95 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.