Hidden inside contester sit contester and trecentos, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contester and trecentos tie for the highest Scrabble score from contester at 11 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in contester: one comes from rearranging its letters, and contester 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 contester and trecentos, 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 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contester. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cornetts and trecento, each 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 contester produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers and contest. For points, the strongest plays are cenotes, centers, centres, contest, cornets, cornett, cotters, cretons, encores, necrose, retcons, tenrecs, and tercets — 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 contester turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, enters, recent, resent, rotten, screen, and secret. For points, the strongest plays are cenote, censer, censor, center, centos, centre, certes, contes, cornet, corset, coster, cotter, crones, encore, erects, escort, octets, recent, recons, rectos, resect, retcon, scoter, screen, secern, secret, sector, tenrec, terces, and tercet — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cones, cores, corns, enter, notes, and rents. For points, the strongest plays are cense, cento, cents, ceres, ceros, certs, cetes, cones, conte, cores, corns, corse, coset, cotes, crest, crone, erect, escot, octet, oncet, recon, recto, scene, scent, scone, score, scorn, scree, terce, and torcs — 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 contester produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, core, corn, cost, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cent, cere, cero, cert, cete, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, ecos, once, orcs, recs, rocs, scot, sect, tecs, and torc — 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 contester turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net, nor, not, one, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cee, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, orc, rec, roc, sec, soc, and tec — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contester. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, so, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in contester plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contester 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.
contester 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 2-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 contester. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
contester is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contester unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are contester and trecentos, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from contester 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 contester produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.