obedience needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obedience is the highest-scoring word from obedience, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obedience — and it is obedience itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obedience produces exactly one seven-letter word: codeine. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obedience turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined. For points, the strongest plays are bodice and ceboid — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obedience. If a familiar word is all you need, start with niece. For points, the strongest play is cebid — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obedience produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bend and bind. For points, the strongest play is bice — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obedience turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee and bid. For points, the strongest play is cob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obedience. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do and id. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obedience plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obedience and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
obedience 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 three senses for obedience. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obedience is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obedience unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obedience, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obedience 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 obedience produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.