covenant 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, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covenant is the highest-scoring word from covenant, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in covenant — and it is covenant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covenant 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 words are centavo and convent, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covenant turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cannot. For points, the strongest plays are avocet and octave — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covenant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ocean. For points, the strongest plays are coven and covet — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covenant produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cent and coat. For points, the strongest plays are cave and cove — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covenant turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covenant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and no. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and no.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in covenant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in covenant 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.
covenant 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 four senses for covenant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
covenant is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covenant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is covenant, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from covenant 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 covenant produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.