DOVER is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. DOVER is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept DOVER?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful DOVER is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for DOVER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
doversChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How DOVER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in DOVER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| d | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 16,338.
What stands out about DOVER
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does DOVER mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scotsdialect
To doze; to sleep lightly or drift in and out of sleep.
Dover describes the kind of shallow, easily broken sleep that comes over someone sitting by a fire or nodding in a chair. Scots writers used dover for this half-sleep long before doze became the standard English word for the same state, and the two terms still overlap in meaning.
How DOVER is used
Chiefly found in Scots dialect writing rather than everyday standard English.
- The old shepherd began to dover by the hearth after supper.
- She would dover for a few minutes before the bairns woke her.
- He tried to dover on the train but the noise kept waking him.
- The cat seemed to dover on the windowsill all afternoon.
- Grandfather liked to dover in his chair with the newspaper on his lap.
- The watchman knew better than to dover during his shift.
- Even the dog would dover in the warm afternoon sun.
- She could dover through most of the sermon without anyone noticing.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of DOVER and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see DOVER
- Dover is unrelated to the English town of the same name; it comes from a separate Scots verb meaning to doze.
- Outside Scots dictionaries and regional glossaries, dover is rarely met in everyday standard English writing.
Anagrams of DOVER
The 5 tiles of DOVER in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with DOVER
3 longer words begin with DOVER.
Words ending in DOVER
3 words end in DOVER. Useful as a back hook: play DOVER onto a word already on the board.
Words with DOVER inside
3 words contain DOVER in the middle. Words that start with DOVER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in DOVER
Common questions about DOVER
- Is DOVER valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and DOVER is not in it.
- How many points is DOVER worth?
- DOVER is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does DOVER mean?
- To doze; to sleep lightly or drift in and out of sleep.
- What letters can be added to DOVER?
- DOVER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of DOVER:
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