Hidden inside overdear sit overdare and overdear, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overdare and overdear tie for the highest Scrabble score from overdear at 12 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in overdear: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overdear 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 overdare and overdear, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overdear produces 2 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 averred and redrove, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overdear turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer. For points, the strongest plays are drover, evader, overed, and reaved — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overdear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, drove, and order. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including drove, deave and drave.
Rearranging the letters in overdear produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear and deer. For points, the strongest plays are deva and dove — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overdear turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear and era. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overdear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, and or. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in overdear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overdear 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.
overdear 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.
overdear is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overdear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overdare and overdear, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overdear 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 overdear produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.