Hidden inside overall sit allover and overall, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allover and overall tie for the highest Scrabble score from overall at 10 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in overall: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overall itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allover and overall, 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 overall produces exactly one six-letter word: loreal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overall. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lover. For points, the strongest plays are laevo, laver, lover, ravel, valor, velar, and volar — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overall produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with love, oral, over, real, role, roll, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, aver, lave, leva, levo, love, oval, over, rave, rove, vale, veal, vela, vera, and vole — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overall turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, lav, lev, ova, rev, var, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overall. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, el, er, la, lo, oe, or, and re — each worth 2 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 overall and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
overall 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for overall. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
overall is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overall unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allover and overall, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overall 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 overall produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.