Words Containing COVAL

Q: What is the highest-scoring word containing COVAL?

COVALENCY is worth 19 points in Scrabble before any bonus squares. Other strong options are COVALENTLY (18), COVALENCIES (18), COVALENCES (17).

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All Words Containing COVAL 6 words

How often does COVAL appear in words?

Our combined English word list has 6 words containing COVAL. Most are 9 letters long, they average 16.8 points and the best is COVALENCY (19 points).

Total words: 6
Most common length: 9 letters; 2 words
Average Scrabble score: 16.8; out of 19 max
Longest word: COVALENCIES; 11 letters
Most common ending: S; 33.3% of words

Most common last letters

s 33.3%
y 33.3%
e 16.7%

Top vowel pairs

ie16.7%

Share of words where these two vowels sit side by side.

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Valid in this dictionary but rarely seen in everyday English.

Highest-scoring word containing COVAL

c ₃o ₁v ₄a ₁l ₁e ₁n ₁c ₃y ₄

C 3 + O 1 + V 4 + A 1 + L 1 + E 1 + N 1 + C 3 + Y 4 = 19 points

Double word: 38 pts
Triple word: 57 pts

Face value of the tiles, then the whole word on a double- or triple-word square (letter bonuses and bingos not included).

covalency

nounvalence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share

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