Hidden inside obturates sit obturates and tabourets, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 525 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obturates and tabourets tie for the highest Scrabble score from obturates at 11 points. The top 10 of 525 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in obturates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obturates 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 obturates and tabourets, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obturates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abettors, abutters, obturate, saboteur, taborets, 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 obturates produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toaster. For points, the strongest plays are abettor, abortus, abutter, arbutes, batters, battues, bettors, boaster, boaters, borates, brutest, bursate, butters, obtuser, rebatos, robusta, rubatos, sorbate, taboret, tabours, and turbots — 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 obturates turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, barest, breast, butter, routes, statue, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, abuser, arbute, barest, baster, batter, battue, beauts, bettas, bettor, boarts, boater, borate, boreas, bourse, breast, broast, brutes, burets, bursae, buster, buteos, butter, buttes, obtest, obtuse, rebato, rebuts, robust, rubato, sorbet, strobe, tabers, tabors, tabour, tubate, tubers, turbos, 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 142 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obturates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, abuse, autos, bears, beast, and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, about, abuse, abuts, bares, baser, baste, bates, batts, battu, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, besot, betas, betta, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, bores, borts, botas, botts, bouse, bouts, braes, brats, brose, brute, bruts, buras, buret, bursa, burse, burst, buteo, butes, butte, butts, rebus, rebut, robes, rubes, saber, sabot, sabre, sober, suber, taber, tabes, tabor, tabus, tsuba, tsubo, tubae, tubas, tuber, tubes, 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 obturates produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, bare, bars, base, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abet, abut, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, batt, bear, beat, beau, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, bots, bott, bout, brae, bras, brat, bros, tabs, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs, urbs, brut, bura, burs, bust, bute, buts, butt, obas, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, rube, rubs, sabe, soba, sorb, stab, stob, stub, and suba — 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 obturates turns up 86 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 abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, bur, bus, but, oba, obe, orb, reb, rob, rub, sab, sob, sub, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obturates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, to, and us. 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 obturates 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.
obturates 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 obturates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obturates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obturates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are obturates and tabourets, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obturates 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 obturates produce 525 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 142 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.