covertly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covertly is the highest-scoring word from covertly, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in covertly — and it is covertly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in covertly produces 2 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 clovery, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling covertly turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overly and volery, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covertly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cover, lover, and voter. For points, the strongest play is covey — 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 covertly produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, love, over, rely, role, tore, and very. For points, the strongest plays are levy and very — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling covertly turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, let, lot, toe, toy, try, and vet. For points, the strongest plays are coy and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covertly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 covertly 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.
covertly 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 2-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 covertly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
covertly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covertly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is covertly, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from covertly 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 covertly produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.