overstay needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overstay is the highest-scoring word from overstay, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in overstay — and it is overstay itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overstay turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starve and voters. For points, the strongest plays are savory, vestry, and votary — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, roast, stare, store, story, tears, and trays. For points, the strongest plays are ovary, ravey, savoy, and vasty — 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 overstay produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, easy, eats, eras, and over. For points, the strongest plays are vary and very — 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 overstay turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, aye, ays, ova, ray, rev, rya, rye, say, sev, soy, sty, tav, toy, try, tye, var, vas, vat, vet, voe, yar, yas, yea, yer, yes, and yet — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, or, oy, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, ye, and yo — 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 overstay 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.
overstay 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 overstay carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for overstay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
overstay is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overstay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is overstay, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from overstay 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 overstay produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 21 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.