obituary needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obituary is the highest-scoring word from obituary, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obituary — and it is obituary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obituary turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rubati, rubato, and tabour, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obituary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort and about. For points, the strongest plays are bayou, borty, boyar, and outby — 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 obituary produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, bait, boat, brat, bury, riot, and tour. For points, the strongest plays are bray, buoy, bury, orby, ruby, and toby — 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 obituary turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, bar, bat, bay, bit, and boy. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, buy, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obituary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, by, it, or, oy, and to. 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 obituary and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
obituary 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 obituary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obituary is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obituary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obituary, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obituary 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 obituary produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.