obstructions needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 682 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstructions is the highest-scoring word from obstructions, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 682 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in obstructions — and it is obstructions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructions produces exactly one eleven-letter word: obstruction. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructions produces exactly one ten-letter word: obtrusions. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructions 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 words are obstructs and subtonics, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstructions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tourists. For points, the strongest plays are biscotto, obstruct, robotics, subsonic, and subtonic — each 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 obstructions produces 71 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buttons, cottons, cousins, and tourist. For points, the strongest plays are bicorns, bicrons, boronic, bosonic, broncos, brucins, bustics, cobnuts, cubists, robotic, and strobic — 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 obstructions turns up 122 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bursts, button, coitus, cotton, counts, courts, and cousin. For points, the strongest plays are bicorn, bicron, binocs, bronco, broncs, brucin, buncos, bustic, cobnut, cubist, cubits, scrobs, scrubs, and sorbic — 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 174 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstructions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus, boots, burns, burnt, burst, busts, and butts. For points, the strongest plays are boric, bronc, bunco, cribs, cubit, curbs, scrob, and scrub — 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 obstructions produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, boos, boot, born, boss, nuts, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are cobs, crib, cubs, and curb — 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 obstructions turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bit, boo, bun, bus, but, con, and cut. For points, the strongest plays are cob and cub — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstructions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
obstructions 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for obstructions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
obstructions is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstructions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstructions, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstructions 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 obstructions produce 682 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 30 eight-letter words, 71 seven-letter words, 122 six-letter words, 174 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.