obviously needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obviously is the highest-scoring word from obviously, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obviously — and it is obviously itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obviously produces exactly one seven-letter word: obvious. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obviously 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 blousy, busily, and ovibos, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils and lousy. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including bousy, boyos and buoys.
Rearranging the letters in obviously produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, boos and boys. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including boys, busy and buys.
Unscrambling obviously turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, boy and bus. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviously. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, is and oy. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in obviously 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.
obviously 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 obviously. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
obviously is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obviously unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obviously, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obviously 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 obviously produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.