Hidden inside overtures sit overtures and trouveres, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtures and trouveres tie for the highest Scrabble score from overtures at 12 points. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in overtures: one comes from rearranging its letters, and overtures 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 overtures and trouveres, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtures. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evertors, outserve, oversure, overture, restrove, and trouvere, 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 overtures produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restore. For points, the strongest plays are evertor, oeuvres, overset, overuse, reverso, reverts, revotes, trovers, vesture, and vetoers — 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 overtures turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with routes, sourer, and voters. For points, the strongest plays are everts, oeuvre, revers, revert, revest, revets, revote, revues, rovers, server, soever, stover, strove, trover, troves, turves, verser, verset, verste, vertus, vetoer, vetoes, and voters — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer, route, serve, sorer, steer, store, and surer. For points, the strongest plays are eruvs, evert, overs, overt, revet, revue, rover, roves, serve, servo, sever, stove, trove, veers, verse, verso, verst, verts, vertu, voter, and votes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in overtures produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, ours, over, rest, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are eruv, ever, eves, over, revs, rove, veer, vees, vert, vest, veto, vets, voes, and vote — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling overtures turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, our, out, see, set, sue, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vet, and voe — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in overtures. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, so, te, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in overtures plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in overtures 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.
overtures 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 three senses for overtures. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
overtures is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing overtures unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overtures and trouveres, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from overtures 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 overtures produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.