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OVERBOILS

9 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What OVERBOILS Means

OVERBOILS is a form of OVERBOIL, which means:

  1. verb: overflow or cause to overflow while boiling“The milk is boiling over”
  2. verb: boil excessively“The peas are overboiled”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

OVERBOILS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as O1 V4 E1 R1 B3 O1 I1 L1 S1.

Anagrams of OVERBOILS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In OVERBOILS

356 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

8 letter words (2)

7 letter words (9)

6 letter words (46)

5 letter words (105)

4 letter words (113)

3 letter words (62)

2 letter words (19)

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