36 words come out when you unscramble OVELS, starting with OVELS itself: 8 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: LOVES, SLOVE, SOLVE and VOLES. The best shorter words score 7: 8 of them, LOVE, VOLE and EVOS included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from OVELS by length: 5 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 13 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of OVELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with OV · ending in LS · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by LOVES, SOLVE and VOLES (8 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts OVELS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVELS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 27 | 36 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 36 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OVELS, SLOVE, EVOS, OVEL, VOLS, EVO, SOV, VOL and LOS. 2 of the 36 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LEVS and SEV.
Each word below uses all the letters of OVELS and one more.