connives needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
connives is the highest-scoring word from connives, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in connives — and it is connives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in connives produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are connive, covines, and novices, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling connives turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voices. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including voices, covens and covine.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and nines. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including voice, coven and coves.
Rearranging the letters in connives produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, the strongest plays are cove and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling connives turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and one. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including sev, vie and vin.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in connives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in connives plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in connives 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.
connives 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 two senses for connives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
connives is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing connives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is connives, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from connives 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 connives produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.