contractions needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 685 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
contractions is the highest-scoring word from contractions, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 685 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in contractions — and it is contractions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contractions produces exactly one eleven-letter word: contraction. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in contractions produces 3 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is contactors, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contractions turns up 17 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contracts. For points, the strongest plays are coactions, constrict, contactor, contracts, and narcotics — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartoons, constant, contacts, contains, contract, occasion, and raccoons. For points, the strongest plays are acrostic, coaction, coactors, contacts, contract, cooncans, cratonic, narcotic, occasion, and raccoons — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contractions produces 79 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, cartons, cartoon, contact, contain, cottons, and nations. For points, the strongest plays are acronic, acrotic, arctics, canonic, coactor, cocains, contact, cooncan, ocicats, raccoon, sirocco, tactics, tictacs, and tictocs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling contractions turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors, artist, attics, cannot, carton, and casino. For points, the strongest plays are accost, arctic, cantic, coacts, cocain, cocoas, conics, corsac, ocicat, siccan, tactic, tictac, and tictoc — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 167 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, attic, carts, coast, coats, cocoa, and coins. For points, the strongest plays are cacti, circa, circs, cisco, coact, cocas, cocoa, cocos, conic, croci, and crocs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in contractions produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, arts, noon, onto, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are coca, coco, and croc — 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 contractions turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, can, car, cat, cis, con, coo, cor, cos, cot, oca, orc, roc, sac, sic, soc, and tic — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, ar, as, at, in, is, it, na, no, oi, on, or, os, si, so, ta, ti, 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.
contractions 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 four senses for contractions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
contractions is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing contractions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is contractions, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contractions 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 contractions produce 685 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 3 ten-letter words, 17 nine-letter words, 45 eight-letter words, 79 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 167 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.