Hidden inside overrides sit overdries and overrides, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 260 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overdries and overrides tie for the highest Scrabble score from overrides at 13 points. The top 10 of 260 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in overrides: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overrides 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 overdries and overrides, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overrides. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derivers, override, overside, and redrives, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overrides produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drivers. For points, the strongest plays are deriver, derives, deviser, devisor, devoirs, diverse, drivers, drovers, redrive, redrove, revised, visored, and voiders — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overrides turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, driver, drives, orders, rivers, served, and videos. For points, the strongest plays are derive, devise, devoir, divers, driver, drives, drover, droves, overed, reived, served, sieved, versed, videos, viseed, and voider — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overrides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dives, drier, dries, drive, drove, and order. For points, the strongest plays are devis, diver, dives, doves, drive, drove, rived, roved, video, vised, and voids — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overrides produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, dive, does, dove, ever, and eves. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, dove, vide, vids, vied, and void — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overrides turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, ids, red, rid, rod, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overrides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in overrides plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overrides 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.
overrides 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 six senses for overrides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
overrides is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overrides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overdries and overrides, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overrides 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 overrides produce 260 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.