OVA is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. OVA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OVA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OVA is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OVA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How OVA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in OVA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,123.
What does OVA mean in Scrabble?
noun
Plural of ovum, an egg cell.
Ova is one of the Latin plurals English kept intact, and it survived because the singular is technical enough that nobody was tempted to regularise it. A human produces around four hundred in a lifetime, which is a small number for something so consequential.
How OVA is used
Plural of ovum. Chiefly technical.
- The ova are counted rather than estimated.
- A frog produces ova in thousands and a human in hundreds.
- Two ova released in one cycle is how twins begin.
- The word ova kept its Latin plural intact.
- Ova are visible under any decent microscope.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OVA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OVA
The 3 tiles of OVA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OVA
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with OVA.
Words ending in OVA
6 words end in OVA. Useful as a back hook: play OVA onto a word already on the board.
Words with OVA inside
Showing 24 of 216 words that contain OVA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with OVA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Common questions about OVA
- Is OVA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OVA, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OVA worth?
- OVA is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OVA mean?
- Plural of ovum, an egg cell.
- What letters can be added to OVA?
- OVA takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of OVA:
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