Hidden inside hovers sit hovers, shover, and shrove, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hovers, shover, and shrove tie for the highest Scrabble score from hovers at 12 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in hovers: two come from rearranging its letters, and hovers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hovers, shover, and shrove, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horse and shove. For points, the strongest plays are hover and shove — 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 hovers produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hose, over, rose, shoe, and sore. 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 hovers turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her and she. For points, the strongest plays are her, hes, hoe, hos, ohs, rev, rho, sev, she, sho, soh, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, or, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, and sh — 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 hovers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hovers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hovers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for hovers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
hovers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hovers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hovers, shover, and shrove, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hovers 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 hovers produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.