Hidden inside voter sit overt, trove, and voter, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
overt, trove, and voter tie for the highest Scrabble score from voter at 8 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in voter: two come from rearranging its letters, and voter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voter. For points, the strongest plays are overt, trove, and voter — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in voter 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.
voter 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 voter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
voter is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing voter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are overt, trove, and voter, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from voter 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 voter produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.