obnoxious needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obnoxious is the highest-scoring word from obnoxious, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obnoxious — and it is obnoxious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obnoxious produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is noxious, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obnoxious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus. For points, the strongest plays are inbox and unbox — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obnoxious produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos, buns, and soon. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including boos, buns and bins.
Unscrambling obnoxious turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, box and bun. For points, the strongest play is box — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obnoxious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, the strongest plays are ox, xi, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
obnoxious 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 obnoxious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
obnoxious is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obnoxious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obnoxious, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obnoxious 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 obnoxious produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.