walkovers needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 370 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
walkovers is the highest-scoring word from walkovers, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 370 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in walkovers — and it is walkovers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling walkovers produces exactly one eight-letter word: walkover. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walkovers produces 6 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 lekvars and walkers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling walkovers turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loaves, lovers and lowers. For points, the strongest plays are lekvar, wakers, walker, and wreaks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 104 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lakes, laser and leaks. For points, 12 words tie at 12 points, including wakes, walks and works.
Rearranging the letters in walkovers produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, lake and laws. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including wake, walk and weak.
Unscrambling walkovers turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask and ear. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkovers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ew. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in walkovers 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.
walkovers 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 2-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 walkovers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
walkovers is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walkovers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is walkovers, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from walkovers 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 walkovers produce 370 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 104 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.