avo and ova tie for the highest Scrabble score from ova at 6 points. The top 2 of 2 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in ova: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ova itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avo and ova, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ova and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ova 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.
ova is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ova unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avo and ova, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ova 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 ova produce 2 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words.