Hidden inside grooved sit grooved and overdog, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grooved and overdog tie for the highest Scrabble score from grooved at 12 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grooved: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grooved 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 grooved and overdog, 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 grooved turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is groved, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grooved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove and rodeo. For points, the strongest plays are drove, grove, and roved — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grooved produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, dove, good, odor, over, and rode. For points, the strongest play is dove — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grooved turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, ego, god, goo, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, and vog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grooved. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, go, and od — each worth 3 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 grooved 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.
grooved 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 grooved. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
grooved is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grooved unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grooved and overdog, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grooved 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 grooved produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.