obeys needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obeys is the highest-scoring word from obeys, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in obeys — and it is obeys itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obeys produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boys. For points, the strongest plays are beys, boys, byes, obey, sybo, and yobs — 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 obeys turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boy, bye, soy, and yes. For points, the strongest plays are bey, boy, bye, bys, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by, oy, so, and yo. 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.
Swap a single tile in obeys 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.
obeys 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in obeys carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for obeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obeys is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obeys, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obeys 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 obeys produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.