Hidden inside obsess sit bosses and obsess, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bosses and obsess tie for the highest Scrabble score from obsess at 8 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in obsess: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obsess itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: bosses and obsess, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obsess produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boss. For points, the strongest plays are boss, obes, and sobs — 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 obsess turns up 8 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bes, bos, obe, and sob, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be 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.
Swap a single tile in obsess and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
obsess 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 two senses for obsess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
obsess is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bosses and obsess, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obsess 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 obsess produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.