obtaining needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obtaining is the highest-scoring word from obtaining, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obtaining — and it is obtaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obtaining produces exactly one eight-letter word: bignonia. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obtaining produces 3 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 obtaining turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biting and nation. For points, the strongest plays are bagnio, baning, bating, biting, boning, and gabion — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obtaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are bigot, bingo, bogan, boing, and goban — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obtaining produces 35 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 bang, bing, biog, and bong — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obtaining turns up 44 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 bag, big, bog, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 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 obtaining. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in obtaining plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obtaining 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.
obtaining 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.
obtaining is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obtaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obtaining, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obtaining 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 obtaining produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.