Hidden inside ogive sit ogive and vogie, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ogive and vogie tie for the highest Scrabble score from ogive at 9 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ogive: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ogive itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ogive and vogie, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling ogive produces exactly one four-letter word: give. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ogive turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego. For points, the strongest plays are veg, vig, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ogive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in ogive plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ogive and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ogive 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 ogive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ogive is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ogive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ogive and vogie, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ogive 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 ogive produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.