covalent 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, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covalent is the highest-scoring word from covalent, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in covalent — and it is covalent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covalent produces 3 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 centavo, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling covalent turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locate. For points, the strongest plays are alcove, avocet, cloven, coeval, 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 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covalent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, clean, clone, novel, and ocean. For points, the strongest plays are calve, clave, clove, coven, covet, and vocal — 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 covalent produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cent, coat, cola, cone, lane, and late. 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 covalent turns up 52 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covalent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, lo, 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.
Swap a single tile in covalent 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.
covalent 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 one sense for covalent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
covalent is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covalent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is covalent, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from covalent 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 covalent produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.