disobeys needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
disobeys is the highest-scoring word from disobeys, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in disobeys — and it is disobeys itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disobeys produces exactly one seven-letter word: disobey. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disobeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sides. For points, the strongest plays are bossy, byssi, and obeys — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in disobeys produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids and body. For points, the strongest plays are body and doby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling disobeys turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid and boy. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including boy, bye and bey.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in disobeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by and do. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in disobeys plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in disobeys and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
disobeys is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in disobeys carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for disobeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
disobeys is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing disobeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is disobeys, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from disobeys earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in disobeys produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.