oubliettes 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, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oubliettes is the highest-scoring word from oubliettes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in oubliettes — and it is oubliettes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oubliettes produces exactly one nine-letter word: oubliette. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oubliettes produces exactly one eight-letter word: subtitle. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oubliettes produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bottles, outlets, and toilets. For points, the strongest plays are boletes, boletus, bottles, butties, buttles, obelise, and subtile — 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 oubliettes turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluest, bottle, outlet, settle, subtle, titles, and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are belies, bestie, betels, betise, blites, blouse, bluest, bluets, boites, bolete, boleti, botels, bottle, boules, boults, bustee, bustle, buteos, butles, buttes, buttle, obelus, obtest, obtuse, sobeit, subito, sublet, sublot, subtle, tobies, and tubist — 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oubliettes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belts, bites, blest, blues, boils, built, and butts. For points, the strongest plays are beets, belie, belts, beset, besot, betel, biles, bites, bitts, blest, blets, blite, blots, blues, bluet, boils, boite, boles, bolts, bolus, botel, botts, boule, boult, bouse, bouts, built, buteo, butes, butle, butte, butts, lobes, lubes, obeli, obese, obits, 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 oubliettes produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, belt, best, bets, bite, bits, and blue. For points, the strongest plays are bees, beet, bels, belt, best, bets, bile, bios, bise, bite, bits, bitt, blet, blot, blue, boil, bole, bolt, bots, bott, bout, bust, bute, buts, butt, libs, lobe, lobs, lube, obes, obis, obit, slob, slub, stob, stub, tube, and tubs — 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 oubliettes turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, bit, bus, but, its, and let. For points, the strongest plays are bee, bel, bes, bet, bio, bis, bit, bos, bot, bus, but, lib, lob, obe, obi, sib, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oubliettes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, it, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be, 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.
oubliettes 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 oubliettes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
oubliettes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oubliettes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oubliettes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oubliettes 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 oubliettes produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 14 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.