Hidden inside alcove sit alcove and coeval, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alcove and coeval tie for the highest Scrabble score from alcove at 11 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in alcove: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alcove itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alcove and coeval, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alcove. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calve, clave, clove, and vocal, 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 alcove produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cola, love, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are cave and cove — 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 alcove turns up 18 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vac, 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 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alcove. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ae, al, el, la, lo, and oe, 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 alcove and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
alcove 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 one sense for alcove. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
alcove is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alcove unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alcove and coeval, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alcove 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 alcove produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.