obeisance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obeisance is the highest-scoring word from obeisance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obeisance — and it is obeisance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obeisance produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with absence. For points, the strongest plays are absence, beacons, bonacis, ebonics, and obscene — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obeisance turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cabins, casino, nieces, and oceans. For points, the strongest plays are bacons, bancos, beacon, binocs, bonaci, bonces, cabins, ceibas, and cobias — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bacon, basic, beans, bones, cabin, cease, and coins. For points, the strongest plays are bacon, banco, bancs, basic, bices, bonce, cabin, ceiba, and cobia — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obeisance produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans, base, bean, been, bees, bone, and cabs. For points, the strongest plays are banc, bice, cabs, cobs, and scab — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obeisance turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ban, bee, cab, can, con, ice, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, be, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obeisance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obeisance 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.
obeisance 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 two senses for obeisance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obeisance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeisance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obeisance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obeisance 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 obeisance produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.