Hidden inside obelus sit blouse, boules, and obelus, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blouse, boules, and obelus tie for the highest Scrabble score from obelus at 8 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in obelus: two come from rearranging its letters, and obelus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blouse, boules, and obelus, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obelus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blues and louse. For points, the strongest plays are blues, boles, bolus, boule, bouse, lobes, and lubes — 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 obelus produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blue, lose, and soul. For points, the strongest plays are bels, blue, bole, lobe, lobs, lube, obes, slob, and slub — 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 obelus turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are bel, bes, bos, bus, lob, obe, sob, and sub — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obelus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be 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 obelus and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
obelus 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.
obelus is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obelus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blouse, boules, and obelus, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obelus 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 obelus produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.