Unscramble OVERWHELM to get 187 words. OVERWHELM itself is a real word: 20 points on a Scrabble board, 22 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, WHOMEVER leads with 19 points. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
O1V45E1R1W4H43E1L12M34
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from OVERWHELM by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 3 with 7, 8 with 6, 38 with 5, 60 with 4, 56 with 3 and 20 with 2.
WHOMEVER is the only one of the 8-letter words in OVERWHELM; it scores 19 points.
VEHME and WHELM are the top 5-letter words from OVERWHELM, 13 points each. WHOLE, LOWER and WHEEL will look familiar.
VEHM and WHOM share the top score of 12 among the 4-letter words in OVERWHELM. MORE, HOME and HERE are the ones most people know.
4 of 56 3-letter words made with OVERWHELM letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. WHO, LOW and ROW will look familiar.
Keep every letter of OVERWHELM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with OV · ending in LM · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by WHOMEVER (19 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. OVERWHELM is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVERWHELM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 187) | 142 | 187 | 134 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 45 of them: VEHME, VEHM, EVHOE, EVOHE, HELMER, HOWRE, REHOME, WOLVE, EMOVE, HORME, ROWME, MEVE and 33 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: HOLME, RHEME, HOM, MEH, EEW, EMO, EW and LOR.
With one more tile, the letters of OVERWHELM spell the words below.