obstinacy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstinacy is the highest-scoring word from obstinacy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obstinacy — and it is obstinacy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obstinacy produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions. For points, the strongest play is syconia — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obstinacy turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cabins, and casino. For points, the strongest plays are botany, cytons, and scanty — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bacon, baits, basic, boats, cabin, coast, and coats. For points, the strongest plays are banty, bitsy, canty, cyano, cyans, cyton, sycon, and yonic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obstinacy produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, bait, bans, bats, bays, and bits. For points, the strongest plays are abys, bays, bony, boys, cays, city, cony, cosy, coys, cyan, cyst, inby, sybo, sync, toby, and yobs — 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 obstinacy turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, any, ban, bat, bay, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, bys, cay, coy, icy, and yob — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinacy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, ay, by, in, and is. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 obstinacy 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.
obstinacy 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 obstinacy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
obstinacy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstinacy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstinacy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstinacy 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 obstinacy produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.