obliterate 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, 447 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obliterate is the highest-scoring word from obliterate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 447 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obliterate — and it is obliterate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obliterate turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are albertite, briolette, and trilobate, 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 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliterate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tolerate. For points, the strongest plays are batterie, blottier, bralette, laborite, liberate, libretto, rebottle, titrable, and toteable — 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 obliterate produces 30 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 abetter, abettor, battier, battler, beretta, biretta, bitrate, blatter, bleater, bloater, blotter, bottler, brattle, brittle, earlobe, librate, orbital, retable, retablo, taboret, totable, and triable, 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 obliterate turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with battle, better, bitter, bottle, letter, relate, and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are aerobe, albeit, albite, bailee, bailer, bailor, baiter, barite, batter, battle, beater, belier, belter, berate, better, bettor, bitter, boatel, boater, boiler, bolete, boleti, bolter, borate, boreal, bottle, labret, librae, lobate, obelia, oblate, rebait, rebate, rebato, reboil, riblet, tablet, talbot, terbia, treble, and tribal — 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 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliterate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, abort, alert, alter, labor, later, and latte. For points, the strongest plays are abele, abler, aboil, abort, baler, balti, belie, beret, betel, betta, biota, birle, biter, blare, blate, blear, bleat, blite, bloat, boart, boite, bolar, boral, botel, brail, britt, broil, labor, liber, libra, lobar, obeli, orbit, rebel, roble, taber, table, tabor, and tribe — 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 obliterate produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, bare, bear, beat, and beer. For points, the strongest plays are abet, able, abri, bail, bait, bale, bare, bate, batt, beal, bear, beat, beer, beet, belt, beta, bier, bile, birl, biro, bite, bitt, blae, blat, blet, blot, boar, boat, boil, bola, bole, bolt, bora, bore, bort, bota, bott, brae, brat, bree, brie, brio, brit, lobe, obia, obit, rabi, and robe — 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 obliterate turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, bar, bat, and bee. For points, the strongest plays are alb, arb, bae, bal, bar, bat, bee, bel, bet, bio, bit, boa, bot, bra, bro, lab, lib, lob, oba, obe, obi, orb, reb, rib, rob, and tab — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliterate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, it, or, and to. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in obliterate plus one additional letter.
obliterate 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for obliterate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obliterate is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obliterate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obliterate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obliterate 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 obliterate produce 447 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.