obdurateness needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1960 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obdurateness is the highest-scoring word from obdurateness, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1960 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in obdurateness — and it is obdurateness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obdurateness produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adsorbents and baudronses, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obdurateness turns up 34 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with absurdest. For points, the strongest plays are absurdest, adsorbent, breadnuts, broadness, eastbound, outbreeds, sodbuster, soundbars, subtrades, subtrends, unaborted, and underboss — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 144 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurateness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with broadest, roundest, senators, and soberest. For points, the strongest plays are absented, bandores, bantered, bartends, basseted, baudrons, bedrests, bedsores, besteads, bestrode, bounders, boutades, breadnut, breasted, broadens, broadest, broasted, burseeds, bustards, dabsters, debasers, debaters, deboners, doubters, drabness, obdurate, obtrudes, outbreed, rebounds, redbones, redoubts, rosebuds, sandburs, soundbar, subdeans, suborned, subtends, subtrade, subtrend, surbased, taboured, turbaned, unbasted, and unbeared — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obdurateness produces 271 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborted, assured, bonuses, breasts, bursted, dearest, and debates. For points, the strongest plays are aborted, abounds, absurds, adsorbs, badness, banders, bandore, bartend, bausond, beaders, bedrest, bedsore, benders, berated, bestead, bestuds, boasted, bonders, borated, bounder, boutade, brassed, broaden, burdens, burseed, bursted, bustard, dabster, daubers, debaser, debases, debater, debates, deboner, debones, debtors, desorbs, doubter, earbuds, enrobed, obtrude, obtunds, outbred, rebased, rebated, rebound, redbone, redoubt, robands, rosebud, sabered, saboted, sandbur, seabeds, serdabs, sobered, strobed, subdean, subtend, sunbeds, tabered, tabored, unbased, unbated, and unrobed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obdurateness turns up 436 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, absurd, abused, abuses, adores, anuses, and around. For points, the strongest plays are abodes, abound, absurd, abused, adbots, adobes, adorbs, adsorb, ardebs, bander, bardes, barned, basted, beader, beaned, beards, bender, bested, bestud, boards, boated, bonder, bossed, bounds, boused, sabred, seabed, serdab, sorbed, sunbed, tabued, brands, breads, bredes, breeds, broads, bruted, bundts, bunted, burden, burned, bussed, busted, dauber, daubes, debars, debase, debate, debone, debtor, deburs, debuts, desorb, dobras, doubts, earbud, obtund, redubs, roband, and unbred — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 489 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurateness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, abuse, adore, aunts, autos, and bands. For points, the strongest plays are abode, adbot, adobe, ardeb, bands, baned, barde, bards, bared, based, bated, bauds, beads, beard, bends, board, bodes, bonds, boned, bored, bound, brads, brand, bread, brede, breed, broad, bunds, bundt, burds, bused, darbs, daube, daubs, debar, debts, debur, debut, dobes, dobra, doubt, drabs, orbed, redub, robed, sabed, tubed, and drubs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obdurateness produces 385 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, auto, bade, and band. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bads, band, bard, baud, bead, beds, bedu, bend, bode, bods, bond, brad, bred, buds, bund, burd, dabs, darb, daub, debs, debt, dobe, drab, drub, and dubs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obdurateness turns up 163 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ant, are, art, ass, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bed, bod, bud, dab, deb, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obdurateness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, be, do, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
obdurateness 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.
obdurateness is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obdurateness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obdurateness, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obdurateness 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 obdurateness produce 1960 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 34 nine-letter words, 144 eight-letter words, 271 seven-letter words, 436 six-letter words, 489 five-letter words, 385 four-letter words, 163 three-letter words and 35 two-letter words.