Unscramble OVIFEROUS and you have 188 words, OVIFEROUS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, FIVERS leads with 12 points. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OVIFEROUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 11 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among the 5-letter words from OVIFEROUS, FIVER and FIVES tie for first at 11 points. VIRUS, EUROS and FIRES are everyday picks.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OVIFEROUS, FIVE leads with 10 points, then ERUV and EVOS on 7. OVER, FOUR and FIRE are the familiar ones.
28 of 57 3-letter words in OVIFEROUS tie at 6 points; none scores more. USE, SIR and REV will look familiar.
Keep every letter of OVIFEROUS but one, change that one, and you get:
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Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; FIVERS (12 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept OVIFEROUS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVIFEROUS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 188) | 133 | 187 | 119 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 54 of them: FROISE, FUEROS, OOFIER, SURFIE, VIROSE, VIROUS, FIERS, FOUER, FUERO, ORFES, REFIS, VROUS and 42 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: OVIFEROUS, ROOFIES, ROOFIE, ERUVS, ERUV, FOOS, FES, FOO, OOF, SEV, FE, ROOS and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of OVIFEROUS spell the words below.