covetous 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, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covetous is the highest-scoring word from covetous, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in covetous — and it is covetous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling covetous produces exactly one six-letter word: covets. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covetous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scout and votes. For points, the strongest plays are coves, covet, and voces — 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 covetous produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, cues, cute, cuts, toes, vest, and vets. For points, the strongest play is cove — 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 covetous turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut, out, set, sue, toe, and too. For points, the strongest plays are sev, vet, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covetous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, oe, os, so, te, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in covetous plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in covetous 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.
covetous 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for covetous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
covetous is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covetous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is covetous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from covetous 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 covetous produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 15 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.