obstinately needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1016 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstinately is the highest-scoring word from obstinately, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1016 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in obstinately — and it is obstinately itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstinately produces exactly one ten-letter word: obeisantly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstinately turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is stylobate, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinately. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are absently, baloneys, bayonets and 2 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obstinately produces 89 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baloney, battles and bottles. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including baloney, baileys and battily.
Unscrambling obstinately turns up 164 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, aliens and battle. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including bailey, basely and bayest.
There are 268 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and alone. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including abyes, banty and batty.
Rearranging the letters in obstinately produces 289 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also and ants. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including bays, boys and ably.
Unscrambling obstinately turns up 137 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including bay, boy and bye.
There are 40 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstinately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
obstinately 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 obstinately. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
obstinately is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstinately unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstinately, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstinately 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 obstinately produce 1016 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 89 seven-letter words, 164 six-letter words, 268 five-letter words, 289 four-letter words, 137 three-letter words and 40 two-letter words.