Hidden inside obtesting sit besotting and obtesting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besotting and obtesting tie for the highest Scrabble score from obtesting at 12 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in obtesting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obtesting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are besotting and obtesting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling obtesting produces exactly one eight-letter word: bettings. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtesting produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with betting, setting, and testing. For points, the strongest plays are besting, betting, bingoes, and biogens — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obtesting turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, bitten, and gotten. For points, the strongest plays are begins, beings, bigots, binges, bingos, biogen, bogies, boings, gibson, and gobies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, bingo, bites, bones, noise, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are begin, begot, being, bigos, bigot, binge, bingo, biogs, bogie, boing, bongs, and gibes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obtesting produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, bent, best, bets, bite, bits, and bone. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bigs, bing, biog, bogs, bong, gibe, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obtesting turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bet, big, bit, ego, get, and got. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, bog, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, in, is, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are 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 obtesting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
obtesting 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
obtesting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtesting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are besotting and obtesting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obtesting 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 obtesting produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.