Unscramble OVERBLOW and you have 111 words, OVERBLOW itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from OVERBLOW by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 18 with 5, 38 with 4, 35 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 7 letters.
VROW and WOVE share the top score of 10 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OVERBLOW. OVER, LOVE and ROLE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of OVERBLOW but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OV · ending in OW · all 8-letter words
OVERBLOW first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept OVERBLOW, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVERBLOW itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 111) | 87 | 111 | 84 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
24 of the 111 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: WOLVE, BOWR, OWLER, BLORE, BOREL, BROOL, OVEL, OWER, OWRE, WERO, BOOL, EVO and 12 more. 3 of the 111 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EW, LOR and ROO.
These 2 words take every letter of OVERBLOW plus a single extra one.