obsolesce needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsolesce is the highest-scoring word from obsolesce, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obsolesce — and it is obsolesce itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsolesce produces exactly one seven-letter word: ecloses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obsolesce turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes. For points, the strongest plays are celebs and cobles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsolesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, close, cools, loose, loses, and solos. For points, the strongest plays are blocs, celeb, and coble — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obsolesce produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, boos, boss, cool, else, less, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are bloc and cobs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obsolesce turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, boo, and see. For points, the strongest play is cob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsolesce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and so. For points, the strongest plays are be 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 obsolesce plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obsolesce 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.
obsolesce 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for obsolesce. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obsolesce is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsolesce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsolesce, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsolesce 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 obsolesce produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.