Hidden inside mobiles sit limboes, mobiles, and obelism, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limboes, mobiles, and obelism tie for the highest Scrabble score from mobiles at 11 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in mobiles: two come from rearranging its letters, and mobiles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are limboes, mobiles, and obelism, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mobiles turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limbos. For points, the strongest plays are biomes, emboli, limbos, and mobile — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mobiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils, limbo, limos, miles, moles, and smile. For points, the strongest plays are besom, biome, limbo, and limbs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mobiles produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, lies, limo, lose, mile, mobs, and mole. For points, the strongest plays are limb, mibs, and mobs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mobiles turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, mob, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are mib and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mobiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, me, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, bo, em, me, mi, mo, and om — 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 mobiles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
mobiles 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for mobiles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mobiles is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mobiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limboes, mobiles, and obelism, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mobiles 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 mobiles produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.