Unscramble OVERWINTER and you have 290 words, OVERWINTER itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. OVERWRITE and INTERWOVE are the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OVERWINTER by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 9 with 8, 20 with 7, 57 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 21 with 2.
Among the 7-letter words you get when you unscramble OVERWINTER, OVERNEW, OVERWET and REWOVEN tie for first at 13 points. REWRITE is an everyday pick.
5 of 57 6-letter words from OVERWINTER tie at 12 points; none scores more. REVIEW, ENTIRE and WINTER will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble OVERWINTER, 4 score 11 points, the group's best. NEVER, WRITE and EVENT are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from OVERWINTER; 4 of them share the top score of 10. VIEW, WERE and OVER are everyday picks.
Among the 3-letter words in OVERWINTER, VOW leads with 9 points, then EEW and EVE on 6. NOT, NEW and ONE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of OVERWINTER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with OV · ending in ER · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by OVERWRITE (15 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
OVERWINTER works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVERWINTER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 290) | 232 | 289 | 218 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 57 of them: OVERWENT, VINEW, NOWTIER, OVERNET, OVERREN, RIVERET, TOWNIER, VERRINE, NERVER, OWRIER, TOWIER, TWONIE and 45 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: ENVIRO, REWORE, REWORN, ORIENTER, TWEER, OWIE, EEW, ETRIER, OWT, RERENT, VIN, EW and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: VON.
Each word below uses all the letters of OVERWINTER and one more.