obsessive needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsessive is the highest-scoring word from obsessive, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obsessive — and it is obsessive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsessive produces exactly one seven-letter word: bossies. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsessive. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is vibes, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obsessive produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, boss, eves, and sees. For points, the strongest play is vibe — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsessive turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, eve, and see. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including eve, sev and vee.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsessive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obsessive plus one additional letter.
obsessive 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 obsessive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obsessive is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsessive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsessive, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsessive 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 obsessive produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.