overtime needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtime is the highest-scoring word from overtime, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in overtime — and it is overtime itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in overtime produces 2 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 emotive and vomiter, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overtime turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteor, remote, and remove. For points, the strongest plays are motive and remove — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter, movie, vomit, and voter. For points, the strongest plays are mover, movie, vomer, and vomit — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overtime produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, item, meet, more, move, over, and riot. For points, the strongest play is move — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overtime turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, met, tie, toe, and vet. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 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 overtime. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 overtime 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.
overtime 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for overtime. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
overtime is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overtime unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is overtime, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from overtime 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 overtime produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.