Hidden inside oviparous sit apivorous and oviparous, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
apivorous and oviparous tie for the highest Scrabble score from oviparous at 14 points. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in oviparous: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oviparous 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 apivorous and oviparous, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oviparous. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paviours and vaporous, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oviparous produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with various. For points, the strongest plays are paviors, paviour, proviso, and vapours — 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 oviparous turns up 14 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are parvis, parvos, pavior, vapors, and vapour, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oviparous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pairs, pours, and virus. For points, the strongest plays are parvo, pavis, and vapor — 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 oviparous produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, oops, ours, pair, poor, poos, and pour. For points, the strongest play is spiv — 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 oviparous turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, our, poo, pro, rap, rip, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are avo, ova, var, vas, vau, via, and vis — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oviparous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, po, and up — 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 oviparous 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.
oviparous 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 oviparous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
oviparous is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oviparous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are apivorous and oviparous, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oviparous 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 oviparous produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.