Hidden inside obscure sit bescour and obscure, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bescour and obscure tie for the highest Scrabble score from obscure at 11 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in obscure: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obscure itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bescour and obscure, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obscure turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course and source. For points, the strongest play is cubers — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obscure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cubes, curbs, cures, curse, robes, and score. For points, the strongest plays are cuber, cubes, curbs, scrob, and scrub — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obscure produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, core, cube, cues, curb, cure, and ours. For points, the strongest plays are cobs, cube, cubs, and curb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obscure turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, cue, our, rob, rub, sub, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are cob and cub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obscure. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be 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.
Swap a single tile in obscure and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
obscure 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 eleven senses for obscure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obscure is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obscure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bescour and obscure, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obscure 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 obscure produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.