Hidden inside connects sit concents and connects, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
concents and connects tie for the highest Scrabble score from connects at 12 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in connects: one comes from rearranging its letters, and connects itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with connects. For points, the strongest plays are concents and connects — 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 connects produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with connect. For points, the strongest plays are concent and connect — 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 connects turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is sconce, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cones, notes, scent, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are cosec and secco — 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 connects produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone, cons, cost, nest, nets, and none. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cone, conn, cons, cost, cote, cots, ecos, once, scot, sect, and tecs — 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 connects turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net, not, one, set, son, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are con, cos, cot, eco, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connects. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, ne, no, oe, on, os, 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.
Swap a single tile in connects and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
connects 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 eleven senses for connects. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
connects is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing connects unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are concents and connects, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from connects 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 connects produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.