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Is overset a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word overset is a Scrabble US word. The word overset is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is overset a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word overset is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

O1V4E1R1S1E1T1

Is overset a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word overset is a Words With Friends word. The word overset is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (4 found)

ESTOVER,OVERSET,REVOTES,VETOERS,

6-letter words (15 found)

EVERTS,REVEST,REVETS,REVOTE,SOEVER,STEREO,STERVE,STOVER,STROVE,TROVES,VERSET,VERSTE,VETOER,VETOES,VOTERS,

5-letter words (37 found)

EREVS,EROSE,ESTER,ESTRO,EVERT,EVETS,OVERS,OVERT,REEST,RESET,RESTO,REVET,ROSET,ROTES,ROVES,SERVE,SERVO,SEVER,SOREE,STEER,STERE,STORE,STOVE,TEERS,TERES,TERSE,TORES,TORSE,TREES,TROVE,VEERS,VERSE,VERSO,VERST,VERTS,VOTER,VOTES,

4-letter words (47 found)

ERES,EREV,EROS,ERST,EVER,EVES,EVET,EVOE,EVOS,ORES,ORTS,OVER,REES,REOS,REST,RETE,RETS,REVS,ROES,ROSE,ROST,ROTE,ROTS,ROVE,SEER,SERE,SORE,SORT,TEER,TEES,TOES,TORE,TORS,TOSE,TREE,TRES,VEER,VEES,VERS,VERT,VEST,VETO,VETS,VOES,VORS,VOTE,VROT,

3-letter words (31 found)

ERE,ERS,EST,EVE,EVO,OES,ORE,ORS,ORT,OSE,REE,REO,RES,RET,REV,ROE,ROT,SEE,SER,SET,SEV,SOT,SOV,TEE,TES,TOE,TOR,VEE,VET,VOE,VOR,

2-letter words (12 found)

EE,ER,ES,ET,OE,OR,OS,RE,SO,ST,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 147 words from overset according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of overset

overset

Alternative forms

  • over-set

Etymology

From Middle English oversetten (“to set over, upset”), from Old English ofersettan (“to set over, install, conquer, overcome”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to set or place over, install, establish”), equivalent to over- +‎ set. Compare Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”), West Frisian oersette (“to translate”), Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”), German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”), Swedish översätta (“to translate”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈsɛt/

Verb

overset (third-person singular simple present oversets, present participle oversetting, simple past and past participle overset)

  1. (obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.
  2. (intransitive) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset; to capsize.
    • 1766, Thomas Mortimer, A New History of England, London: J. Wilson and J. Fell, Volume 3, Part 13, “George II. A.D. 1727,” p. 596,[1]
      […] the barge was hoisted out for the preservation of the admiral, who entered it accordingly; but all distinction of persons being now abolished, the seamen rushed into it in such crowds, that in a few moments it overset.
  3. (transitive) To knock over, capsize, overturn.
  4. (obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.
  5. (transitive) To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.
  6. (archaic) To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.
  7. (printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.
  8. (transitive, rare) To translate.
  9. To overfill.
    • 1646, James Howell, letter to Henry Hopkins dated 1 January, 1646 in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907, Volume 4, p. 17,[4]
      [Tobacco] is a good companion to one that converseth with dead men, for if one hath been poring long upon a book, or is toiled with the pen and stupefied with study, it quickeneth him, and dispels those clouds that usually overset the brain.

Anagrams

  • e-voters, estover, revotes, vetoers

Source: wiktionary.org