Unscramble HOVELS and you have 66 words, HOVELS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of HOVELS is on the page: SHOVEL, each 12 points. The strongest shorter words are SHOVE, HOVEL and HOVES, 11 points each. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from HOVELS split into 2 with 6 letters, 12 with 5, 20 with 4, 21 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Trade one tile of HOVELS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with HO · ending in LS · all 6-letter words
What HOVELS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
HOVELS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOVELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 66) | 54 | 66 | 49 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
12 of the 66 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOVES, OVELS, SLOVE, EVOS, LOSH, OVEL, VOLS, EHS, EVO, SOV, VOL and LOS. 5 of the 66 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LEVS, HOS, SEV, SHO and SOH.
This word takes every letter of HOVELS plus a single extra one.