uncovering needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
uncovering is the highest-scoring word from uncovering, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in uncovering — and it is uncovering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncovering. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: covering, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in uncovering produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reunion and unicorn. For points, the strongest play is curving — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling uncovering turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curing, ignore, and region. For points, the strongest play is coving — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncovering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cover, given and groin. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including cover, voice and coven.
Rearranging the letters in uncovering produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and core. For points, the strongest plays are cove and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling uncovering turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and ego. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including guv, veg and vig.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncovering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
uncovering 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 6-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 uncovering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
uncovering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uncovering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is uncovering, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from uncovering 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 uncovering produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.