Hidden inside overalls sit allovers and overalls, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 198 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allovers and overalls tie for the highest Scrabble score from overalls at 11 points. The top 10 of 198 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in overalls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overalls 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 allovers and overalls, 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 overalls produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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 overalls turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loaves and lovers. For points, the strongest plays are lavers, loaves, lovers, ravels, salver, salvor, serval, slaver, solver, valors, velars, and versal — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overalls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laser, loser, lover, loves, roles, rolls, and slave. For points, the strongest plays are arvos, avers, laevo, laver, laves, levas, lover, loves, oaves, ovals, overs, ravel, raves, roves, salve, salvo, saver, savor, selva, servo, slave, soave, solve, vales, valor, valse, veals, velar, verso, volar, and voles — 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 overalls produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ears, eras, lose, love, oral, and over. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, aver, aves, avos, lave, lavs, leva, levo, levs, love, oval, over, rave, revs, rove, save, vale, vars, vase, veal, vela, vera, voes, 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 overalls turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, are, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, lav, lev, ova, rev, sev, var, vas, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overalls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, lo, oe, or, os, re, and so — 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 overalls 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.
overalls 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.
overalls is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overalls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allovers and overalls, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overalls 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 overalls produce 198 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.