Hidden inside obeying sit biogeny and obeying, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
biogeny and obeying tie for the highest Scrabble score from obeying at 13 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in obeying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obeying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are biogeny and obeying, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obeying turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bygone, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, and bingo. For points, the strongest plays are beigy and bogey — 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 obeying produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bone and gone. For points, the strongest plays are bogy, goby, and gybe — 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 obeying turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, boy, bye, ego, and one. For points, the strongest plays are bey, boy, bye, and yob — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by, go, in, no, on, and oy. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in obeying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obeying and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
obeying 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.
obeying is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are biogeny and obeying, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obeying 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 obeying produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.