Hidden inside obturate sit obturate and tabouret, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obturate and tabouret tie for the highest Scrabble score from obturate at 10 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in obturate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obturate 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 obturate and tabouret, 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 obturate produces 4 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 abettor, abutter, and taboret, 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 obturate turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with butter. For points, the strongest plays are arbute, batter, battue, bettor, boater, borate, butter, rebato, rubato, tabour, tubate, and turbot — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obturate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, outer, route, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are abort, about, battu, beaut, betta, boart, brute, buret, buteo, butte, rebut, taber, tabor, tubae, tuber, and turbo — 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 obturate produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, bare, bear, beat, boat, bore, and brat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abut, bare, bate, batt, bear, beat, beau, beta, boar, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, bott, bout, brae, brat, brut, bura, bute, butt, robe, rube, tabu, tuba, and tube — 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 obturate turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are arb, bae, bar, bat, bet, boa, bot, bra, bro, bur, but, oba, obe, orb, reb, rob, rub, tab, tub, and urb — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obturate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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 obturate 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.
obturate 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 one sense for obturate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obturate is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obturate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are obturate and tabouret, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obturate 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 obturate produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.