Hidden inside stove sit stove and votes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stove and votes tie for the highest Scrabble score from stove at 8 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in stove: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stove itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with votes. For points, the strongest plays are stove 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 stove produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toes, vest, vets, and vote. For points, the strongest plays are 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 stove turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, toe, and vet. For points, the strongest plays are sev, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stove. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so and to. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, oe, os, so, te, and to — each worth 2 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 stove and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
stove 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 1-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 stove. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
stove is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stove unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stove and votes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stove 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 stove produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.