obsolete needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obsolete is the highest-scoring word from obsolete, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obsolete — and it is obsolete itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obsolete produces 2 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 boletes and bootees, 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 obsolete turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are betels, bolete, bootee, botels, and oboles, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsolete. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belts, blest, boots, loose, steel, stole, and stool. For points, the strongest plays are beets, belts, beset, besot, betel, blest, blets, blots, boles, bolos, bolts, boost, boots, botel, lobes, lobos, obese, oboes, obole, and obols — 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 obsolete produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, belt, best, bets, boos, boot, and else. For points, the strongest plays are bees, beet, bels, belt, best, bets, blet, blot, bole, bolo, bolt, boos, boot, bots, lobe, lobo, lobs, obes, oboe, obol, slob, and stob — 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 obsolete turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, boo, let, lot, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are bee, bel, bes, bet, boo, bos, bot, lob, obe, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obsolete. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, so, and to. 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.
Swap a single tile in obsolete and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
obsolete 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 obsolete. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obsolete is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obsolete unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obsolete, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obsolete 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 obsolete produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.