Hidden inside takeover sit overtake and takeover, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overtake and takeover tie for the highest Scrabble score from takeover at 15 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in takeover: one comes from rearranging its letters, and takeover itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overtake and takeover, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in takeover produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are overate and overeat, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling takeover turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are evoker and revoke, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takeover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voter. For points, the strongest play is evoke — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in takeover produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, over and rate. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including take, akee and kart.
Unscrambling takeover turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including ark, eek and eke.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takeover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ok, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in takeover plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in takeover and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
takeover 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 takeover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
takeover is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takeover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overtake and takeover, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from takeover 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 takeover produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.