Hidden inside obtrudes sit doubters, obtrudes, and redoubts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doubters, obtrudes, and redoubts tie for the highest Scrabble score from obtrudes at 11 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in obtrudes: two come from rearranging its letters, and obtrudes 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 doubters, obtrudes, and redoubts, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obtrudes produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bursted. For points, the strongest plays are bursted, debtors, doubter, obtrude, outbred, redoubt, rosebud, and strobed — 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 obtrudes turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busted, doubts, routes, rudest, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are bestud, boused, bruted, busted, debtor, deburs, debuts, desorb, doubts, redubs, and sorbed — 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 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtrudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bored, burst, debts, doubt, outer, robes, and route. For points, the strongest plays are bodes, bored, burds, bused, debts, debur, debut, dobes, doubt, drubs, orbed, redub, robed, and tubed — 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 obtrudes produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, best, bets, bore, bred, buds, and bust. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bode, bods, bred, buds, burd, debs, debt, dobe, drub, and dubs — 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 obtrudes turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bet, bud, bus, but, dot, and due. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bod, bud, deb, and dub — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtrudes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be 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 obtrudes 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.
obtrudes 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for obtrudes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obtrudes is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtrudes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doubters, obtrudes, and redoubts, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obtrudes 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 obtrudes produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.