obtained needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtained is the highest-scoring word from obtained, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obtained — and it is obtained itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtained produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bandito, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtained turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate. For points, the strongest plays are baited, bandit, and boated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtained. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abide, abode, adbot and 8 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtained produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, bait and band. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including bade, band and bend.
Unscrambling obtained turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and and ant. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bid.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtained. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in obtained plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obtained and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
obtained 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.
obtained is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtained unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtained, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtained 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 obtained produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.