obsessives needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsessives is the highest-scoring word from obsessives, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obsessives — and it is obsessives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsessives produces exactly one nine-letter word: obsessive. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsessives produces exactly one eight-letter word: obsesses. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsessives 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 obsessives. 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 obsessives 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 obsessives 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 obsessives. 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.
obsessives 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 obsessives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
obsessives is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsessives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsessives, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsessives 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 obsessives produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.