Hidden inside convalesce sit convalesce and covalences, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
convalesce and covalences tie for the highest Scrabble score from convalesce at 17 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in convalesce: one comes from rearranging its letters, and convalesce itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are convalesce and covalences, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convalesce turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conclaves and covalence, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convalesce. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are concaves and conclave, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convalesce produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancels and cleanse. For points, the strongest play is concave — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convalesce turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calves, cancel and cleans. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including calves, alcove and claves.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convalesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, caves and cease. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including caves, calve and clave.
Rearranging the letters in convalesce produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cans and case. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convalesce turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con and eve. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convalesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and no. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and no.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in convalesce plus one additional letter.
convalesce 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 5-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 convalesce. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
convalesce is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing convalesce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are convalesce and covalences, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from convalesce 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 convalesce produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.