Hidden inside holdover sit holdover and overhold, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holdover and overhold tie for the highest Scrabble score from holdover at 15 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in holdover: one comes from rearranging its letters, and holdover 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 holdover and overhold, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling holdover turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holder. For points, the strongest play is hooved — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holdover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove, loved, lover, older, and rodeo. For points, the strongest plays are hovel 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 holdover produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, dove, held, hero, hold, hole, and hood. For points, the strongest play is hove — 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 holdover turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, led, oho, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dev, doh, edh, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holdover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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 holdover 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.
holdover 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 two senses for holdover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
holdover is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holdover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holdover and overhold, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holdover 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 holdover produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.