obdurately needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 669 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obdurately is the highest-scoring word from obdurately, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 669 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obdurately — and it is obdurately itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with troubled. For points, the strongest play is bouldery — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obdurately produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted and trouble. For points, the strongest plays are broadly, daubery, dryable, and durably — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obdurately turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with balder, barely and beauty. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including belady, boyard and brayed.
There are 167 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abort and about. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including badly, abyed and baldy.
Rearranging the letters in obdurately produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, auto and bade. For points, the strongest plays are body and doby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obdurately turns up 127 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including bay, boy and buy.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and ay. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in obdurately plus one additional letter.
obdurately 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 obdurately. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
obdurately is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obdurately unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obdurately, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obdurately 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 obdurately produce 669 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 167 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 127 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.