Hidden inside obeahism sit bohemias and obeahism, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bohemias and obeahism tie for the highest Scrabble score from obeahism at 15 points. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in obeahism: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obeahism itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bohemias and obeahism, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obeahism produces 2 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 beamish and bohemia, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obeahism turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abmhos, abohms, bimahs, and himbos, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeahism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beams, homes, and shame. For points, the strongest plays are abmho, abohm, bimah, and himbo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obeahism produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, aims and base. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, hams and home.
Unscrambling obeahism turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ash and bah. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including bah, ham and him.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeahism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in obeahism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obeahism and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
obeahism 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
obeahism is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeahism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bohemias and obeahism, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obeahism 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 obeahism produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.