obstructs 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, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obstructs is the highest-scoring word from obstructs, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obstructs — and it is obstructs itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructs produces exactly one eight-letter word: obstruct. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructs produces exactly one seven-letter word: turbots. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructs turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bursts, courts and scouts. For points, the strongest plays are scrobs and scrubs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obstructs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with burst, busts and butts. For points, the strongest plays are curbs, scrob, and scrub — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obstructs produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boss, bust and butt. For points, the strongest plays are cobs, cubs, and curb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obstructs turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, but and cut. For points, the strongest plays are cob and cub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in obstructs 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.
obstructs 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 three senses for obstructs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obstructs is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obstructs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obstructs, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obstructs 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 obstructs produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 21 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.