connivance needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
connivance is the highest-scoring word from connivance, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in connivance — and it is connivance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling connivance produces exactly one eight-letter word: convince. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in connivance produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cocaine. For points, the strongest plays are concave and vaccine — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling connivance turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are covine and novice, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connivance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naive, ocean, and voice. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including voice, cavie and coven.
Rearranging the letters in connivance produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling connivance turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con and ice. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connivance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, in, no, and on. For points, 11 words tie at 2 points, including an, in and no.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in connivance plus one additional letter.
connivance 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for connivance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
connivance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing connivance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is connivance, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from connivance 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 connivance produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.