Unscramble CONTEMPERS to get 338 words. CONTEMPERS itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. CONTEMPER is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
C34O1N12T1E1M34P34E1R1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CONTEMPERS split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 12 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 23 with 2.
6 of 60 7-letter words from CONTEMPERS tie at 13 points; none scores more. PRESENT, PERCENT and RESPECT will look familiar.
COEMPT, COMPER and COMPTS share the top score of 12 among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble CONTEMPERS. CENTER, CENTRE and CEMENT are the ones most people know.
Among the 5-letter words from CONTEMPERS, COMPS and COMPT tie for first at 11 points. COMES, SCOPE and POEMS are everyday picks.
COMP tops the 4-letter words in CONTEMPERS at 10 points; next come CEPE and CEPS on 8. COST, COME and MEET will look familiar.
60 3-letter words made with CONTEMPERS letters; 6 of them share the top score of 7. TOP, MEN and PRO are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of CONTEMPERS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with CO · ending in RS · all 10-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COMPEERS, COMPERES, COMPETES and CORPSMEN (14 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CONTEMPERS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTEMPERS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 338) | 272 | 338 | 247 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 66 of them: CONTEMPERS, CONTEMPER, COMPTERS, COMPERS, COMPTER, COMPER, PROSEMEN, PECTOSE, PORTMEN, REPOMEN, TEMPORE, TOPSMEN and 54 more. Words With Friends* skips 25 of them: MERCES, STOREMEN, CRETONS, MERCS, PERCS, PEREONS, PRONEST, SPECT, MERC, PERC, CERTS, CERT and 13 more.
With one more tile, the letters of CONTEMPERS spell the words below.