Hidden inside obeisant sit botanies, botanise, niobates and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 322 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
botanies, botanise, niobates and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from obeisant at 10 points. The top 10 of 322 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in obeisant: three come from rearranging its letters, and obeisant 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 botanies, botanise, niobates, and obeisant, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obeisant produces 8 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 banties, basinet, bastion, boniest, bonitas, niobate, and obtains, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obeisant turns up 21 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are absent, basion, batons, beanos, bentos, betons, binate, bionts, biotas, boites, bonita, bonsai, obtain, sabine, sobeit, and tobies, 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, beans, beast, beats, bites, boats, and bones. For points, the strongest plays are abets, baits, banes, basin, baste, bates, baton, beano, beans, beast, beats, bento, bents, besot, betas, beton, bines, bints, biont, biota, bison, bites, boast, boats, boite, bones, botas, ebons, nabes, nabis, obias, obits, sabin, sabot, and tabes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obeisant produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bait, bans, base, bats, bean, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, baes, bait, bane, bani, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bine, bins, bint, bios, bise, bite, bits, boas, boat, bone, bota, bots, ebon, isba, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, nobs, obas, obes, obia, obis, obit, sabe, snib, snob, soba, stab, stob, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obeisant turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, ban, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, nab, neb, nib, nob, oba, obe, obi, sab, sib, sob, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeisant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, in, is, and it. 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.
Swap a single tile in obeisant 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.
obeisant 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
obeisant is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeisant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are botanies, botanise, niobates, and obeisant, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obeisant 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 obeisant produce 322 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.