obsidians 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, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsidians is the highest-scoring word from obsidians, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obsidians — and it is obsidians itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsidians produces exactly one eight-letter word: obsidian. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obsidians produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abiosis, basions, and bonsais, 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 obsidians turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bindis, 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 obsidians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bands, basis, binds, bonds, sands, and sodas. For points, the strongest plays are bands, bidis, bindi, binds, and bonds — 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 obsidians produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, band, bans, bass, bids, bind, and bond. For points, the strongest plays are bads, band, bidi, bids, bind, bods, bond, dabs, and dibs — 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 obsidians turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ass, bad, ban, and bid. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bid, bod, dab, and dib — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsidians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
Swap a single tile in obsidians 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.
obsidians 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 one sense for obsidians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obsidians is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsidians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsidians, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsidians 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 obsidians produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.