Hidden inside observes sit observes and obverses, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
observes and obverses tie for the highest Scrabble score from observes at 13 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in observes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and observes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with observes. For points, the strongest plays are observes and obverses — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in observes produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with observe. For points, the strongest plays are observe, obverse, and verbose — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling observes turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serves. For points, the strongest plays are bevors and breves — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in observes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, robes, roses, serve, and sober. For points, the strongest plays are bevor, breve, and verbs — 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 observes produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees, bore, boss, ever, eves, and over. For points, the strongest play is verb — 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 observes turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, eve, rob, and see. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in observes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and so. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in observes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in observes 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.
observes 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 nine senses for observes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
observes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing observes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are observes and obverses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from observes 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 observes produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.