lobbyists needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lobbyists is the highest-scoring word from lobbyists, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lobbyists — and it is lobbyists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lobbyists produces exactly one eight-letter word: lobbyist. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lobbyists produces exactly one seven-letter word: bossily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lobbyists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils, lists, lobby, and slots. For points, the strongest plays are bilby and lobby — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lobbyists produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, boil and boss. For points, the strongest plays are boys, sybo, toby, and yobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lobbyists turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bit, boy and its. For points, the strongest plays are boy, bys, and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lobbyists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, is and it. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in lobbyists and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lobbyists 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 lobbyists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
lobbyists is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lobbyists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lobbyists, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lobbyists 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 lobbyists produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.