overstays needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 385 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overstays is the highest-scoring word from overstays, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 385 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in overstays — and it is overstays itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstays. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is overstay, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overstays produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starves. For points, the strongest plays are avosets, estrays, oysters, starves, stayers, storeys, stovers, and votress — 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 overstays turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roasts, sorest, stares, starve, staves, stores, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are savory, savoys, 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 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overstays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with essay, rates, rests, roast, roses, saves, and seats. 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 overstays produces 122 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 overstays turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, aye, ear, and eat. 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 overstays. 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 overstays 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.
overstays 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 overstays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for overstays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
overstays is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overstays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is overstays, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from overstays 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 overstays produce 385 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.