Hidden inside oasis sit oasis and ossia, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oasis and ossia tie for the highest Scrabble score from oasis at 5 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in oasis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oasis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oasis and ossia, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling oasis produces exactly one four-letter word: ossa. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oasis turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass. For points, the strongest plays are ais, ass, sis, and sos — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oasis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ai, as, is, oi, os, si, and so — each worth 2 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 oasis 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.
oasis 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 oasis carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for oasis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
oasis is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oasis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oasis and ossia, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oasis 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 oasis produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 4 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.