Hidden inside obtuse sit buteos and obtuse, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buteos and obtuse tie for the highest Scrabble score from obtuse at 8 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in obtuse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and obtuse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buteos and obtuse, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtuse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tubes. For points, the strongest plays are besot, bouse, bouts, buteo, butes, tsubo, and tubes — 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 obtuse produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets, bust, toes, tube, and tubs. For points, the strongest plays are best, bets, bots, bout, bust, bute, buts, obes, stob, stub, tube, and tubs — 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 obtuse turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bus, but, out, set, sub, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are bes, bet, bos, bot, bus, but, obe, sob, sub, and tub — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtuse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, 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 obtuse and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
obtuse 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 four senses for obtuse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
obtuse is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtuse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buteos and obtuse, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from obtuse 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 obtuse produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.