obtusely needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtusely is the highest-scoring word from obtusely, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obtusely — and it is obtusely itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtusely produces exactly one seven-letter word: boletus. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtusely turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluest and subtle. For points, the strongest plays are blousy, bluesy, blueys, butyls, outbye, and subtly — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtusely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belts, blest, blues, louse, lousy, stole, and style. For points, the strongest plays are bluey, bousy, buoys, busty, butyl, bytes, obeys, and outby — 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 obtusely produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, best, bets, blue, boys, bust, and busy. For points, the strongest plays are beys, boys, buoy, busy, buys, byes, byte, obey, sybo, toby, and yobs — 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 obtusely turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, boy, bus, but, buy, bye, and let. For points, the strongest plays are bey, boy, buy, bye, bys, and yob — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtusely. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by, oy, so, to, us, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 obtusely 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.
obtusely 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 obtusely. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obtusely is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtusely unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtusely, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtusely 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 obtusely produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 22 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.