obsesses needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsesses is the highest-scoring word from obsesses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obsesses — and it is obsesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsesses turns up 2 six-letter words. 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.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsesses. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beses and obese, 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 obsesses produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, boss, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are bees, 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 obsesses turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee and see. For points, the strongest plays are bee, 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 obsesses. 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 obsesses 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.
obsesses 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 obsesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obsesses is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsesses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsesses 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 obsesses produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.