obviating needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obviating is the highest-scoring word from obviating, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obviating — and it is obviating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obviating produces 2 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 baiting and boating, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obviating turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biting and voting. For points, the strongest play is vibing — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are gavot and vigia — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obviating produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bang, boat, gain, goat, and into. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obviating turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are vig and vog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in obviating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obviating 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.
obviating 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 4-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 obviating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
obviating is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obviating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obviating, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obviating 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 obviating produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.