Unscramble OVERLOCK and you have 94 words, OVERLOCK itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
O1V45E1R1L12O1C34K5
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OVERLOCK by length: 1 with 8 letters, 10 with 6, 11 with 5, 34 with 4, 29 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 7 letters.
VOLK tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OVERLOCK at 11 points; next come COKE and COOK on 10. OVER, LOVE and LOOK will look familiar.
These 6 words have the length of OVERLOCK, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with OV · ending in CK · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COOKER, LOCKER, RECOOK and RELOCK (12 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: OVERLOCK 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVERLOCK itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 94) | 74 | 94 | 67 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OVERLOCK, CLOKE, CROOVE, KERO, KORO, LOKE, ROKE, CROOL, ERK, OVEL, ROK, EVO and 8 more, 20 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: VELCRO, VOLK, OK, ECO, LOC, LOR and ROO, 7 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of OVERLOCK spell the words below.