Unscramble DOVETAIL to get 221 words. DOVETAIL itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. DOVETAIL has 1 anagram here, VIOLATED, scoring 12 like DOVETAIL itself. The best shorter words score 10: 8 of them, VIOLATE, DATIVE and LIVEDO included. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DOVETAIL by length: 2 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 15 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2.
VIOLATE is the only one of the 7-letter words in DOVETAIL; it scores 10 points.
16 of 57 5-letter words from DOVETAIL tie at 9 points; none scores more. VIDEO, VALID and AVOID will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DOVETAIL, 14 score 8 points, the group's best. DATE, LOVE and LIVE are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words from DOVETAIL are led by DEV, DIV and VID, 7 points each. OLD, LET and LOT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DOVETAIL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DO · ending in IL · all 8-letter words
DOVETAIL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DOVETAIL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOVETAIL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 221) | 173 | 221 | 164 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LIVEDO, LOAVED, OVATED, DEVOT, DOVIE, OLIVET, VILDE, VIOLD, DEVO, DIVO, LOAVE, LOVIE and 36 more, 48 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: VOLTED, DEVI, VID, VLEI, DELT, ODA, DA, OI and TE, 9 in all.
These 4 words take every letter of DOVETAIL plus a single extra one.