covarying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covarying is the highest-scoring word from covarying, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in covarying — and it is covarying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covarying produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carving. For points, the strongest play is varying — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covarying turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, crying, and racing. For points, the strongest play is covary — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covarying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry, cigar and gravy. For points, the strongest plays are gravy, grovy, and vying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covarying produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, corn and gain. For points, the strongest play is cavy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covarying turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air and any. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covarying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay and go. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in covarying and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
covarying is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
covarying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covarying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is covarying, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from covarying 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 covarying produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.