obtainment 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, 299 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtainment is the highest-scoring word from obtainment, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 299 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obtainment — and it is obtainment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtainment produces exactly one nine-letter word: mentation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are antinome, nominate, and ointment — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtainment produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, the strongest plays are ambient and boatmen — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtainment turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten and nation. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including batmen, bemoan and binman.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, biome, and maneb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtainment produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and bait. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including beam, ambo and bema.
Unscrambling obtainment turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, the strongest plays are bam, mib, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtainment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in obtainment plus one additional letter.
obtainment 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 obtainment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obtainment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtainment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtainment, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtainment 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 obtainment produce 299 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.