Hidden inside slipovers sit overslips and slipovers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overslips and slipovers tie for the highest Scrabble score from slipovers at 14 points. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in slipovers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slipovers 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 overslips and slipovers, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slipovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoilers. For points, the strongest plays are overslip, plosives, and slipover — 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 slipovers produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with silvers and spoiler. For points, the strongest plays are plosive and plovers — 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 slipovers turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with livers, losers, lovers, olives, proves, silver, and solves. For points, the strongest plays are pelvis, pervos, plover, proves, and vipers — 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 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slipovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liver, lives, loser, loses, lover, loves, and olive. For points, the strongest plays are pervo, pervs, prove, spivs, and viper — 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 slipovers produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, lips, live, lose, loss, and love. For points, the strongest plays are perv and spiv — each 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 slipovers turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, lip, oil, per, pie, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are lev, rev, sev, vie, vis, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slipovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in slipovers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slipovers 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.
slipovers 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 slipovers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
slipovers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slipovers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overslips and slipovers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slipovers 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 slipovers produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.