Hidden inside contave is one standout: centavo, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CONVEAT, CONTEVA or VATCONE and you get the same 7 letters as CONTAVE: so the words from CONTAVE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CONTAVE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CENTAVO (noun), a coin of various Spanish-American nations, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
centavo is the highest-scoring word from contave, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling contave produces exactly one seven-letter word: centavo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling contave turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avocet and octave, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ocean. For points, the strongest plays are coven and covet — 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 contave produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cent, coat, cone, neat, note, and once. 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 contave turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ate, can, cat, con, and eat. For points, the strongest play 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in contave. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, no, oe, on, ta, 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in contave plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in contave and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is centavo, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from contave 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 contave produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.