180 words come out when you unscramble OVERBANK, starting with OVERBANK itself: 17 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 12: 4 of them, BROKEN, BANKER and KNAVE included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
O1V45E1R1B34A1N12K5
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OVERBANK by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 33 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among the 5-letter words in OVERBANK, KNAVE leads with 12 points, then BAKEN and BAKER on 11. ABOVE, BREAK and BROKE are the familiar ones.
15 of 60 4-letter words from OVERBANK tie at 10 points; none scores more. OVER, BANK and RANK will look familiar.
Among 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble OVERBANK, the top score is 9, reached by 4. ARE, BAR and VAN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of OVERBANK but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OV · ending in NK · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BANKER, BROKEN and KNAVE (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: OVERBANK is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVERBANK itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 180) | 130 | 179 | 122 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
49 of the 180 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OVERBANK, BARKEN, BAKEN, BERKO, BORAK, KOBAN, BOAK, BOKE, BRAK, KRAB, NABK, ANKER and 37 more. 8 of the 180 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BERK, BORK, KORA, NAV, OK, BAE, OBA and ARO. 1 of the 180 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: VON.
With one more tile, the letters of OVERBANK spell the words below.