Hidden inside obtainer sit baritone, obtainer, reobtain and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
baritone, obtainer, reobtain and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from obtainer at 10 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in obtainer: three come from rearranging its letters, and obtainer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baritone, obtainer, reobtain, and taborine, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obtainer produces 5 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 baronet, bornite, niobate, reboant, and taborin, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obtainer turns up 24 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are baiter, banter, barite, binate, boater, bonier, bonita, borane, borate, obtain, rebait, rebato, and terbia, 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, boner, borne, brain, train, and tribe. For points, the strongest plays are abort, bairn, baron, baton, beano, bento, beton, biner, biont, biota, biter, boart, boite, boner, borne, brain, brant, brent, brine, orbit, robin, taber, tabor, and tribe — 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 obtainer produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bare, barn, bean, bear, beat, and bent. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abri, bait, bane, bani, bare, barn, bate, bean, bear, beat, bent, beta, bier, bine, bint, biro, bite, boar, boat, bone, bora, bore, born, bort, bota, brae, bran, brat, bren, brie, brin, brio, brit, ebon, nabe, obia, obit, rabi, and robe — 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 obtainer turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ate, ban, and bar. For points, the strongest plays are arb, bae, ban, bar, bat, ben, bet, bin, bio, bit, boa, bot, bra, bro, nab, neb, nib, nob, oba, obe, obi, orb, reb, rib, rob, 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, be, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 obtainer 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.
obtainer 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.
obtainer is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are baritone, obtainer, reobtain, and taborine, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obtainer 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 obtainer produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.