Hidden inside obasin sit basion and bonsai, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
OBASIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to BASION and BONSAI.
basion and bonsai tie for the highest Scrabble score from obasin at 8 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling obasin turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basion and bonsai, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obasin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are basin, bison, nabis and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obasin produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including bans, bani and bias.
Unscrambling obasin turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ban, sin, and son. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including ban, abs and bas.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obasin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in obasin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obasin 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are basion and bonsai, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obasin 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 obasin produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.