obsession needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsession is the highest-scoring word from obsession, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obsession — and it is obsession itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obsession produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with session. For points, the strongest plays are boonies, bossies, and noobies — each 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 obsession turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bosses, noises, and obsess. For points, the strongest plays are bisons, bosons, bosses, noobie, and obsess — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bones, noise, and noses. For points, the strongest plays are bines, bises, bison, bones, boons, boson, ebons, noobs, oboes, snibs, and snobs — 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 obsession produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bone, boos, boss, nose, ones, sins, and sons. For points, the strongest plays are bens, bine, bins, bios, bise, bone, boon, boos, boss, ebon, nebs, nibs, nobs, noob, obes, obis, oboe, sibs, snib, snob, 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 obsession turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ben, bes, bin, bio, bis, boo, bos, neb, nib, nob, obe, obi, sib, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in obsession plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obsession 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.
obsession 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 two senses for obsession. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obsession is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsession unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsession, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsession 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 obsession produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.