Hidden inside coverslips sit coverslips and slipcovers, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 534 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coverslips and slipcovers tie for the highest Scrabble score from coverslips at 17 points. The top 10 of 534 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in coverslips: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coverslips 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 coverslips and slipcovers, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coverslips turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coverslip and slipcover, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coverslips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoilers. For points, the strongest plays are overslip, plosives, and slipover — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in coverslips produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers, corpses, process, silvers, and spoiler. For points, the strongest play is pelvics — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coverslips turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closes, copier, copies, corpse, covers, and crises. For points, the strongest play is pelvic — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 155 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coverslips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, close, cores, cover, cries, cross, and liver. For points, the strongest plays are clove, cover, coves, pervo, pervs, prove, spivs, vices, viper, voces, and voice — 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 coverslips produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lice, lies, lips, live, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are perv, spiv, cove, and vice — 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 coverslips turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice, lie, lip, oil, per, and pie. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — each worth 7 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 coverslips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
coverslips 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.
coverslips is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coverslips unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coverslips and slipcovers, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coverslips 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 coverslips produce 534 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 155 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.