convents 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, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
convents is the highest-scoring word from convents, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in convents — and it is convents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convents produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is convent, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convents turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are covens and covets, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cones and notes. For points, the strongest plays are coven, coves, covet, and voces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convents produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, cone and cons. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convents turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, net and not. For points, the strongest plays are sev, vet, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, so, and to. For points, 11 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and so.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in convents plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in convents 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.
convents 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 convents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
convents is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing convents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is convents, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from convents 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 convents produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.