Hidden inside overlies sit overlies, relievos, and voleries, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overlies, relievos, and voleries tie for the highest Scrabble score from overlies at 11 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in overlies: two come from rearranging its letters, and overlies 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 overlies, relievos, and voleries, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overlies produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resolve. For points, the strongest plays are erosive, leviers, overlie, relievo, relives, resolve, reviles, servile, and veilers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overlies turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler, livers, lovers, olives, relies, and silver. For points, the strongest plays are elvers, ervils, eviler, levers, levier, levies, liever, livers, livres, lovers, lovier, olives, reives, relive, revels, revile, revise, silver, slieve, sliver, soever, solver, veiler, vireos, and voiles — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elves, liver, lives, loser, lover, loves, and olive. For points, the strongest plays are elver, elves, ervil, evils, lever, levis, lieve, liver, lives, livre, lover, loves, olive, overs, reive, revel, rives, roves, serve, servo, sever, sieve, siver, solve, veers, veils, verse, verso, viers, viler, viols, vireo, vires, virls, visor, vleis, voile, and voles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overlies produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ever, eves, evil, lies, live, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are ever, eves, evil, levo, levs, live, love, over, revs, rive, rove, veer, vees, veil, vier, vies, vile, viol, virl, vise, vlei, voes, and vole — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overlies turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, lie, oil, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eve, lev, rev, sev, vee, vie, vis, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overlies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in overlies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overlies 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.
overlies 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 2-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 overlies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
overlies is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overlies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overlies, relievos, and voleries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overlies 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 overlies produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.