Hidden inside overly sit overly and volery, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overly and volery tie for the highest Scrabble score from overly at 12 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in overly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overly and volery, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overly produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with love, over and rely. For points, the strongest plays are levy and very — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overly turns up 11 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lev, ley, lye and 4 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in overly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overly and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
overly 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for overly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
overly is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overly and volery, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overly 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 overly produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.