obstacles 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, 446 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstacles is the highest-scoring word from obstacles, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 446 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obstacles — and it is obstacles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstacles. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: obstacle, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obstacles produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castles, closest, closets, and locates. For points, the strongest plays are cablets and cobalts — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obstacles turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, beasts, blasts, cables, castle, closes, and closet. For points, the strongest plays are cables, cablet, cobalt, 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 131 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstacles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, beast, beats, belts, bests, blast, and bless. For points, the strongest plays are blocs, cable, coble, and scabs — 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 obstacles produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, acts, also, base, bass, bats, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are bloc, cabs, cobs, and scab — 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 obstacles turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ass, ate, bat, bet, cab, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cab and cob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstacles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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 obstacles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obstacles 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.
obstacles 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 two senses for obstacles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obstacles is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstacles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstacles, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstacles 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 obstacles produce 446 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 131 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.