Hidden inside stover sit stover, strove, troves and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stover, strove, troves and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stover at 9 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in stover: three come from rearranging its letters, and stover itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voters. For points, the strongest plays are stover, strove, troves, 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with store, voter, and votes. For points, the strongest plays are overs, overt, roves, servo, stove, trove, verso, verst, verts, 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 stover produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with over, rest, rose, sore, sort, toes, and tore. For points, the strongest plays are over, revs, rove, 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 stover turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with set, toe, and vet. For points, the strongest plays are rev, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, 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 stover and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
stover 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 one sense for stover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stover is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stover, strove, troves, and voters, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stover 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 stover produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.