hobby needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hobby is the highest-scoring word from hobby, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in hobby — and it is hobby itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hobby turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boy. For points, the strongest play is hoy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hobby. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, ho, oh, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 hobby and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hobby 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 hobby carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for hobby. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
hobby is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hobby unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hobby, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hobby 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 hobby produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.