obduracies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 873 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obduracies is the highest-scoring word from obduracies, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 873 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obduracies — and it is obduracies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obduracies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascribed, barcodes, brocades and 5 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obduracies produces 64 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abduces, barcode, bodices and 9 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obduracies turns up 151 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with absurd, abused and adores. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including abduce, bardic and bodice.
There are 252 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obduracies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with birds, board and bored. For points, the strongest plays are cebid and cubed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obduracies produces 240 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and airs. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including cabs, crab and crib.
Unscrambling obduracies turns up 123 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are cab, cob, and cub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obduracies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and be. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
obduracies 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 one sense for obduracies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
obduracies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obduracies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obduracies, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obduracies 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 obduracies produce 873 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 15 eight-letter words, 64 seven-letter words, 151 six-letter words, 252 five-letter words, 240 four-letter words, 123 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.