Hidden inside overtakes sit overskate, overtakes, and takeovers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 388 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overskate, overtakes, and takeovers tie for the highest Scrabble score from overtakes at 16 points. The top 10 of 388 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in overtakes: two come from rearranging its letters, and overtakes 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 overskate, overtakes, and takeovers, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtakes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overtake, overtask, and takeover, 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 overtakes produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evokers and revokes, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overtakes turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, starve, stroke, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are evoker, evokes, and revoke — 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 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, rates, roast, serve, skate, stare, and steak. For points, the strongest play is evoke — 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 overtakes produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, and ever. For points, the strongest play is kvas — 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 overtakes turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ask, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, eek, eke, kae, kas, kat, kea, koa, kor, kos, oak, oka, oke, ska, and tsk — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ok, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in overtakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overtakes 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.
overtakes 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 three senses for overtakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
overtakes is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overtakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overskate, overtakes, and takeovers, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overtakes 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 overtakes produce 388 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.