obelisks needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obelisks is the highest-scoring word from obelisks, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obelisks — and it is obelisks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obelisks produces exactly one seven-letter word: obelisk. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obelisks turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bekiss and blokes, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obelisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bikes, bless, boils, likes, loses, silks, and skies. For points, the strongest plays are bikes, bilks, bisks, bloke, bosks, and kibes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obelisks produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bike, boil, boss, kiss, less, lies, and like. For points, the strongest plays are bike, bilk, bisk, bosk, kibe, and kobs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obelisks turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, and ski. For points, the strongest play is kob — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obelisks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, ok, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in obelisks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obelisks 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.
obelisks 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for obelisks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obelisks is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obelisks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obelisks, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obelisks 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 obelisks produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.