Hidden inside overheads sit overheads and overshade, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 381 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overheads and overshade tie for the highest Scrabble score from overheads at 16 points. The top 10 of 381 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in overheads: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overheads itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overheads and overshade, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overheads. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overhead and reshaved, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overheads produces 15 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 havered, hovered, and sheaved, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overheads turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, erased, heroes, hoards, served, shared, and shaved. For points, the strongest plays are heaved, shaved, and shoved — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overheads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, dares, dears, deers, drove, eased, and erase. For points, the strongest plays are haver, haves, heave, hevea, hover, shave, and shove — 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 overheads produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, deer, does, dove, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are have and hove — 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 overheads turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ash, ear, era, eve, and had. For points, the strongest plays are dah, dev, doh, edh, had, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overheads. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, do, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in overheads plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overheads and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
overheads 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in overheads carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
overheads is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overheads unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overheads and overshade, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overheads 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 overheads produce 381 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.