obsessing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsessing is the highest-scoring word from obsessing, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obsessing — and it is obsessing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obsessing produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with session. For points, the strongest plays are bigness, bigoses, bingoes, biogens, bossing, and gibsons — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obsessing turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, bosses, noises, and obsess. For points, the strongest plays are begins, beings, binges, bingos, biogen, bogies, boings, gibson, and gobies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, bingo, bones, noise, noses, and signs. For points, the strongest plays are begin, being, bigos, binge, bingo, biogs, bogie, boing, bongs, and gibes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obsessing produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, bone, boss, egos, goes, gone, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bigs, bing, biog, bogs, bong, gibe, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obsessing turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, ego, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, bog, gib, and gob — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obsessing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obsessing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
obsessing 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.
obsessing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsessing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsessing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsessing 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 obsessing produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.