Hidden inside novice sit covine and novice, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covine and novice tie for the highest Scrabble score from novice at 11 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in novice: one comes from rearranging its letters, and novice itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are covine and novice, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voice. For points, the strongest plays are coven, covin, 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 novice produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, nice, once, oven, vein, and vice. For points, the strongest plays are 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 novice turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, and one. For points, the strongest plays are vie, vin, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are en, in, ne, no, oe, oi, and on — each worth 2 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 novice and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
novice 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 novice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
novice is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing novice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are covine and novice, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from novice 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 novice produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.