uncovers 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, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
uncovers is the highest-scoring word from uncovers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in uncovers — and it is uncovers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in uncovers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nervous. For points, the strongest play is uncover — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling uncovers turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, covers, and source. For points, the strongest plays are corves, covens, covers, and curves — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores and corns. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including cover, coven and coves.
Rearranging the letters in uncovers produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons and core. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling uncovers turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and nor. For points, the strongest plays are rev, sev, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uncovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including no, on and or.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in uncovers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in uncovers 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.
uncovers 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for uncovers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
uncovers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uncovers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is uncovers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from uncovers 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 uncovers produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.