obviate needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obviate is the highest-scoring word from obviate, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in obviate — and it is obviate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviate. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: above, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obviate produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, beat, bite, boat, and vote. For points, the strongest play is vibe — 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 obviate turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat, bet, bit, eat, tab, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ave, avo, ova, tav, vat, vet, via, vie, and voe — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obviate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, it, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, 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.
Swap a single tile in obviate and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
obviate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for obviate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obviate is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obviate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obviate, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obviate 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 obviate produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.