Hidden inside covate sit avocet and octave, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
COVATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AVOCET and OCTAVE.
avocet and octave tie for the highest Scrabble score from covate at 11 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling covate turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avocet and octave, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is covet, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covate produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, coat, taco, and vote. For points, the strongest plays are cave and cove — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covate turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and cat. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in covate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in covate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avocet and octave, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from covate 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 covate produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.