obstinate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 397 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstinate is the highest-scoring word from obstinate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 397 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obstinate — and it is obstinate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinate. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are botanies, botanise, botanist, niobates, and obeisant, 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 obstinate produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with station. For points, the strongest plays are banties, basinet, bastion, batiste, battens, bistate, boniest, bonitas, botnets, niobate, and obtains — 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 obstinate turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten. For points, the strongest plays are absent, basion, batons, batten, beanos, bentos, betons, bettas, binate, bionts, biotas, bitten, boites, bonita, bonsai, botnet, obtain, obtest, sabine, sobeit, and tobies — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, beans, beast, beats, bites, boats, and bones. For points, the strongest plays are abets, baits, banes, basin, baste, bates, baton, batts, beano, beans, beast, beats, bento, bents, besot, betas, beton, betta, bines, bints, biont, biota, bison, bites, bitts, boast, boats, boite, bones, botas, botts, ebons, nabes, nabis, obias, obits, sabin, sabot, and tabes — 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 obstinate produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bait, bans, base, bats, bean, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, baes, bait, bane, bani, bans, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bean, beat, bens, bent, best, beta, bets, bias, bine, bins, bint, bios, bise, bite, bits, bitt, boas, boat, bone, bota, bots, bott, ebon, isba, nabe, nabs, nebs, nibs, nobs, obas, obes, obia, obis, obit, sabe, snib, snob, soba, stab, stob, and tabs — 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 obstinate turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, ban, bat, bet, bit, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, ban, bas, bat, ben, bes, bet, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, bos, bot, nab, neb, nib, nob, oba, obe, obi, sab, sib, sob, and tab — 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, be, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obstinate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obstinate 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.
obstinate 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 four senses for obstinate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obstinate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstinate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstinate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstinate 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 obstinate produce 397 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.