Hidden inside oubest sit buteos and obtuse, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
OUBEST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to BUTEOS and OBTUSE.
buteos and obtuse tie for the highest Scrabble score from oubest at 8 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling oubest turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buteos and obtuse, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oubest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tubes. For points, the strongest plays are besot, bouse, bouts, buteo, butes, tsubo, and tubes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oubest produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets, bust, toes, tube, and tubs. For points, the strongest plays are best, bets, bots, bout, bust, bute, buts, obes, stob, stub, tube, and tubs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oubest turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bus, but, out, set, sub, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are bes, bet, bos, bot, bus, but, obe, sob, sub, and tub — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oubest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in oubest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oubest and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buteos and obtuse, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oubest 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 oubest produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.