Hidden inside overholds sit holdovers and overholds, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holdovers and overholds tie for the highest Scrabble score from overholds at 16 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in overholds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overholds 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 holdovers and overholds, 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 overholds. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holdover and overhold, 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 overholds produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holders. For points, the strongest play is hoovers — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overholds turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holder, looser, lovers, rodeos, shoved, shovel, and solved. For points, the strongest plays are hooved 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doors, drove, holds, holes, hoods, horse, and loose. For points, the strongest plays are hovel, hover, 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 overholds produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, door, dove, held, hero, hers, and hold. For points, the strongest play is hove — 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 overholds turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, led, oho, old, red, rod, and she. For points, the strongest plays are dev, doh, edh, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, oh, or, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
Swap a single tile in overholds 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.
overholds 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.
overholds is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overholds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holdovers and overholds, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overholds 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 overholds produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.