Hidden inside novices sit covines and novices, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
covines and novices tie for the highest Scrabble score from novices at 12 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in novices: one comes from rearranging its letters, and novices 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 covines and novices, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling novices turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voices. For points, the strongest plays are covens, covine, covins, novice, and voices — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, noise, ovens, since, veins, and voice. For points, the strongest plays are coven, coves, covin, vices, 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 novices produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, ices, nice, nose, and once. 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 novices turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are sev, vie, vin, vis, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in novices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, and so — 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 novices 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.
novices 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 novices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
novices is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing novices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are covines and novices, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from novices 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 novices produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.