obtuseness needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtuseness is the highest-scoring word from obtuseness, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obtuseness — and it is obtuseness itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtuseness produces exactly one nine-letter word: tubenoses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtuseness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bonesets, subsense, subteens, subtones, and tubenose, 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 obtuseness produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonuses and sunsets. For points, the strongest plays are boneset, bonuses, bossest, bustees, butenes, subnets, subsets, subteen, and subtone — 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 obtuseness turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bosses, obsess, senses, stones, sunset, and tosses. For points, the strongest plays are bentos, besets, besots, betons, bosses, bosuns, bouses, busses, bustee, butene, buteos, obsess, obtuse, subnet, subset, and tsubos — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtuseness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests, bones, bonus, buses, busts, nests, and noses. For points, the strongest plays are beets, benes, bento, bents, beses, beset, besot, bests, beton, bones, bonus, bosun, bouse, bouts, bunts, buses, busts, buteo, butes, ebons, obese, snobs, snubs, stobs, stubs, 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 obtuseness produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bees, bent, best, bets, bone, and boss. For points, the strongest plays are been, bees, beet, bene, bens, bent, best, bets, bone, boss, bots, bout, buns, bunt, buss, bust, bute, buts, ebon, nebs, nobs, nubs, obes, snob, snub, sobs, stob, stub, subs, tube, tubs, and unbe — 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 obtuseness turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, bun, bus, but, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are bee, ben, bes, bet, bos, bot, bun, bus, but, neb, nob, nub, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtuseness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, no, on, 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.
obtuseness 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 3-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 obtuseness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obtuseness is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtuseness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtuseness, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtuseness 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 obtuseness produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.