obituaries needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 604 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obituaries — and it is obituaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obituaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is saboteur, 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 obituaries produces 26 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abortus, arbutes, baiters, barites, bitsier, boaster, boaters, borates, broiest, bursate, bustier, isobare, obtuser, orbiest, ourebis, rebaits, rebatos, robusta, rubatos, rubiest, sorbate, tabours, and terbias, 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 obituaries turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, barest, breast, buries, busier, rabies, and routes. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, abuser, airbus, arbute, baiter, barest, barite, baster, beauts, bestir, biotas, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, boarts, boater, boites, borate, boreas, bourse, braise, breast, broast, bruise, bruits, brutes, burets, buries, bursae, busier, buster, buteos, isobar, obtuse, orbits, oribis, ourebi, rabies, rebait, rebato, rebuts, ribose, robust, rubati, rubato, rubies, sobeit, sorbet, strobe, subito, tabers, tabors, tabour, terbia, tibiae, tibias, tobies, tribes, tubers, turbos, and urbias — 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 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obituaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, abuse, autos, baits, bears, and beast. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, about, abris, abuse, abuts, baits, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, betas, biers, biota, biros, birse, biter, bites, boars, boart, boast, boats, boite, boras, bores, borts, botas, bouse, bouts, braes, brats, bries, brios, brits, brose, bruit, brute, bruts, buras, buret, bursa, burse, burst, buteo, butes, obias, obits, orbit, oribi, rabis, rebus, rebut, ribes, robes, rubes, saber, sabir, sabot, sabre, sober, suber, taber, tabes, tabor, tabus, tibia, tribe, tsuba, tsubo, tubae, tubas, tuber, tubes, turbo, and urbia — 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 obituaries produces 187 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, auto, bait, bare, bars, and base. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abri, abut, arbs, baes, bait, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, beau, best, beta, bets, bias, bier, bios, biro, bise, bite, bits, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, bots, bout, brae, bras, brat, brie, brio, bris, brit, bros, obas, obes, obia, obis, obit, orbs, rabi, rebs, ribs, robe, robs, rube, rubs, sabe, soba, sorb, stab, stob, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, urbs, brut, bura, burs, bust, bute, buts, ibis, and isba — 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 obituaries turns up 102 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, bur, bus, but, oba, obe, obi, orb, reb, rib, rob, rub, sab, sib, sob, sub, tab, tub, and urb — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obituaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, is, it, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, 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.
If you only take one play from this page, make it obituaries — at 12 points in Scrabble, no other word from obituaries pays better.
Hidden inside obituaries are 604 valid words in total. Broken down by length: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 187 four-letter words, 102 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.
Under the hood, UnscrambleX runs obituaries against full game dictionaries, keeps only the arrangements that are legal to play, and ranks what survives by score — which is how obituaries end up at the top of your results. The same engine powers checks for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Word Jumble, so a word shown here is a word you can actually put on the board.
Every rack tells a story, and obituaries is no exception. Once the letters come apart, two paths open up on the board.
You can chase the points with obituaries, or play it safe with a quick low-tile drop like ae and ai when the board leaves you no room.
That gap matters: the weakest play here earns 2 points while the strongest reaches 12, so the same letters can swing an entire turn depending on where and how they land.
UnscrambleX lays out the full spread so you can weigh a big score against board control before committing — and along the way you'll bump into words you didn't know were words.
Treat the results list as a practice drill, not just an answer key. Cover it, shuffle obituaries in your head, and count how many of the 604 words you can spot before peeking.
Most players catch the obvious ones like obituaries quickly — it's the short survivors that slip past unnoticed, and those misses are the useful part.
Run the same drill on a few racks a day and the letter patterns start jumping out on their own, no unscrambler needed.
You collect words you'd never look up. Nobody opens a dictionary hunting for ae — but once it turns up in a results list, it's yours to play forever.
Spelling stops being guesswork: rebuilding obituaries from loose tiles forces you to commit to a letter order and get corrected instantly, a faster feedback loop than any spelling drill. And with plays from obituaries worth anywhere between 2 and 12 points, every turn doubles as a small economics problem — take the points now, or hold the flexible tiles for a better board.
Words you've physically assembled also stick better than words you've only read, which is exactly what timed formats punish you for not having.