obeisances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obeisances is the highest-scoring word from obeisances, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obeisances — and it is obeisances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obeisances produces exactly one nine-letter word: obeisance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisances. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: absences, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obeisances produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with absence and casinos. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including absence, abscise and beacons.
Unscrambling obeisances turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cabins, casino and ceases. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including cabins, bacons and bancos.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bacon, bases and basic. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including bacon, basic and cabin.
Rearranging the letters in obeisances produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bans, base and bass. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cabs, banc and bice.
Unscrambling obeisances turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ban and bee. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and be. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
obeisances 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 obeisances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obeisances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeisances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obeisances, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obeisances 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 obeisances produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.