obviation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obviation is the highest-scoring word from obviation, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obviation — and it is obviation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obviation 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 word is ovation, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obviation turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are biotin, bonita, bonito, and obtain, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviation. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is avion, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obviation produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, boat and boot. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including nova, vain and vina.
Unscrambling obviation turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban and bat. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including van, avo and nav.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in obviation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obviation 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.
obviation 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 one sense for obviation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
obviation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obviation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obviation, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obviation 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 obviation produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.