Hidden inside costa sit ascot, coast, coats and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ascot, coast, coats and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from costa at 7 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in costa: four come from rearranging its letters, and costa itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, and tacos. For points, the strongest plays are ascot, coast, coats, costa, and tacos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in costa produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, cast, cats, coat, cost, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are acts, cast, cats, coat, cost, cots, ocas, scat, scot, soca, and taco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling costa turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cat, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, cat, cos, cot, oca, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costa. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are as, at, os, so, ta, 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.
Swap a single tile in costa and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
costa 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 1-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 costa. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
costa is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costa unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ascot, coast, coats, costa, and tacos, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from costa 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 costa produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.