Hidden inside gobies sit bogies and gobies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bogies and gobies tie for the highest Scrabble score from gobies at 9 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in gobies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gobies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bogies and gobies, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gobies. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bigos, biogs, bogie, and gibes, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gobies produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, egos, and goes. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bigs, biog, bogs, gibe, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gobies turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, bog, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gobies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gobies and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
gobies 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for gobies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gobies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gobies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bogies and gobies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gobies 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 gobies produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.