Hidden inside covalences 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 covalences 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 covalences: one comes from rearranging its letters, and covalences 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 covalences 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 covalences. 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 covalences 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 covalences turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calves, cancel, cleans, clones, leaves, loaves, and novels. For points, the strongest plays are alcove, calves, claves, cleave, cloven, cloves, coeval, covens, veloce, and vocals — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covalences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, caves, cease, clean, clone, close, and colas. For points, the strongest plays are calve, caves, clave, clove, coven, coves, vocal, and voces — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covalences produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cans, case, cave, cola, cone, and cons. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, and vacs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covalences turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con, eve, one, sea, see, and son. 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 covalences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, as, el, en, es, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, on, os, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in covalences plus one additional letter.
covalences 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 covalences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
covalences is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covalences 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 covalences 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 covalences 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.