Hidden inside eavesdrops sit eavesdrops and overpassed, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 548 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eavesdrops and overpassed tie for the highest Scrabble score from eavesdrops at 16 points. The top 10 of 548 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in eavesdrops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eavesdrops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eavesdrops and overpassed, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eavesdrops produces exactly one nine-letter word: eavesdrop. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eavesdrops. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depraves and pervades, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eavesdrops produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pressed and spreads. For points, the strongest plays are deprave, pervade, repaved, and vapored — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eavesdrops turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, erased, erases, operas, passed, proved, and proves. For points, the strongest plays are paveed and proved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 171 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eavesdrops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opera, posed, poses, press, prove, reads, and adore. For points, the strongest plays are paved and vaped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eavesdrops produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, over, pads, pass, peas, peed, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are pave, perv, vape, and veep — 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 eavesdrops turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and eve. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eavesdrops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in eavesdrops plus one additional letter.
eavesdrops 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for eavesdrops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
eavesdrops is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eavesdrops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eavesdrops and overpassed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eavesdrops 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 eavesdrops produce 548 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 171 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.