Hidden inside obeah sit bohea and obeah, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bohea and obeah tie for the highest Scrabble score from obeah at 10 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in obeah: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obeah 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 bohea and obeah, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling obeah turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bah. For points, the strongest plays are bah and hob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeah. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, be, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 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 obeah 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.
obeah 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 obeah carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for obeah. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obeah is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeah unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bohea and obeah, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obeah 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 obeah produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.