obtainable needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 325 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtainable is the highest-scoring word from obtainable, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 325 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obtainable — and it is obtainable itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainable. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bilobate and boatable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtainable produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bibelot, bitable, and bobtail, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtainable turns up 32 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are balboa, bilboa, nibble, and nobble, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone and bible. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including bible, abbot and babel.
Rearranging the letters in obtainable produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail and bait. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including abba, abbe and baba.
Unscrambling obtainable turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bib, bob, and ebb — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainable. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and be. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
obtainable 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 one sense for obtainable. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obtainable is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtainable unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtainable, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtainable 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 obtainable produce 325 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.