obese needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obese is the highest-scoring word from obese, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in obese — and it is obese itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obese produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees. For points, the strongest plays are bees and obes — 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 obese turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee and see. For points, the strongest plays are bee, bes, bos, obe, and sob — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obese. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and so. 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 obese and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
obese 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for obese. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
obese is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obese unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obese, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obese 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 obese produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.