Hidden inside coyotes sit coyotes and oocytes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coyotes and oocytes tie for the highest Scrabble score from coyotes at 12 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in coyotes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coyotes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coyotes and oocytes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling coyotes turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cooeys, coyest, coyote and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coyotes. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cooey and cosey, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coyotes produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, toes, and toys. For points, the strongest plays are cosy, coys, cyst, and syce — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling coyotes turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, soy and toe. For points, the strongest play is coy — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coyotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oy, so, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in coyotes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
coyotes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in coyotes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for coyotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
coyotes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coyotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coyotes and oocytes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coyotes 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 coyotes produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.