Hidden inside obtain sit bonita and obtain, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bonita and obtain tie for the highest Scrabble score from obtain at 8 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in obtain: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obtain itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bonita and obtain, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtain. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baton, biont, and biota, 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 obtain produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, boat, and into. For points, the strongest plays are bait, bani, bint, boat, bota, obia, and obit — 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 obtain turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, not, tab, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are ban, bat, bin, bio, bit, boa, bot, nab, nib, nob, oba, obi, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
Swap a single tile in obtain and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
obtain 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 three senses for obtain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
obtain is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bonita and obtain, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obtain 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 obtain produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.