Hidden inside comets sit comets and comtes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comets and comtes tie for the highest Scrabble score from comets at 10 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in comets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and comets 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 comets and comtes, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes. For points, the strongest plays are comes, comet, and comte — 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 comets produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cost, most, some, stem, and toes. For points, the strongest plays are come and mocs — 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 comets turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, set, and toe. For points, the strongest play is moc — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 comets 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.
comets 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 comets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
comets is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comets and comtes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from comets 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 comets produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.