Hidden inside handover sit handover and overhand, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
handover and overhand tie for the highest Scrabble score from handover at 15 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in handover: one comes from rearranging its letters, and handover itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are handover and overhand, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling handover turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dehorn, hadron, hander, harden, horned, and vendor, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in handover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, drove, heard, and hoard. For points, the strongest plays are haven, haver, and hover — 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 handover produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, done, dove, earn, hand, and hard. For points, the strongest plays are have and hove — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling handover turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are, ear, end, era, had, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are dah, dev, doh, edh, had, and hod — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in handover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, do, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 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 handover 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.
handover 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 1-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 handover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
handover is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing handover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are handover and overhand, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from handover 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 handover produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.