obfuscates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 431 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obfuscates is the highest-scoring word from obfuscates, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 431 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obfuscates — and it is obfuscates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obfuscates produces exactly one nine-letter word: obfuscate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obfuscates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is outfaces, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obfuscates produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with focuses. For points, the strongest plays are faucets, focuses, fucoses, and outface — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obfuscates turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuses, beasts, causes, coasts, fatsos, safest, and sauces. For points, the strongest plays are boeufs, facets, fasces, fauces, faucet, and fucose — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obfuscates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, abuse, autos, bases, beast, beats, and bests. For points, the strongest plays are boeuf, cafes, faces, facet, facts, and focus — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obfuscates produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, auto, base, bass, bats, beat, and best. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, cafs, coft, fabs, face, fact, fobs, and fubs — 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 obfuscates turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ass, ate, bat, bet, bus, and but. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fab, fob, and fub — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obfuscates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, of, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
obfuscates 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for obfuscates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
obfuscates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obfuscates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obfuscates, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obfuscates 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 obfuscates produce 431 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.