overtaking needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 549 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtaking is the highest-scoring word from overtaking, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 549 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in overtaking — and it is overtaking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtaking. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is revoking, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overtaking produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest play is evoking — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overtaking turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, ignore and naiver. For points, the strongest play is invoke — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and giant. For points, the strongest play is knave — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overtaking produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain and gate. For points, the strongest play is kiva — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling overtaking turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and air. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ka, ki, and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in overtaking plus one additional letter.
overtaking 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 3-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 overtaking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
overtaking is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overtaking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is overtaking, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from overtaking 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 overtaking produce 549 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.