Hidden inside olives sit olives and voiles, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
olives and voiles tie for the highest Scrabble score from olives at 9 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in olives: one comes from rearranging its letters, and olives itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with olives. For points, the strongest plays are olives and voiles — 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in olives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lives, loves, olive, and solve. For points, the strongest plays are evils, levis, lives, loves, olive, solve, veils, viols, vleis, voile, and voles — 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 olives produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, lies, live, lose, love, oils, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are evil, levo, levs, live, love, veil, vies, vile, viol, vise, vlei, voes, and vole — 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 olives turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie and oil. For points, the strongest plays are lev, sev, vie, vis, 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 olives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, os, si, and so — 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 olives 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.
olives 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.
olives is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing olives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are olives and voiles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from olives 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 olives produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.