Unscramble OBDURES to get 200 words. OBDURES itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. OBDURES has 1 anagram here, ROSEBUD, scoring 10 like OBDURES itself. The best shorter words score 9: 9 of them, BORDES, BOURDS and BOUSED included. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. OBDURES as a single 7-tile play makes 60 in Scrabble, 10 plus the 50 bonus, and 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from OBDURES split into 2 with 7 letters, 14 with 6, 48 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 17 with 2.
18 of 48 5-letter words from OBDURES tie at 8 points; none scores more. EUROS, BORED and SOBER will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OBDURES, 16 score 7 points, the group's best. USED, DOES and BEDS are the ones most people know.
59 3-letter words from OBDURES; 6 of them share the top score of 6. USE, RED and DUE are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of OBDURES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with OB · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ROSEBUD (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts OBDURES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBDURES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 200) | 153 | 200 | 144 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
47 of the 200 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OBDURES, BORDES, BOURDS, OBDURE, SURBED, BORDE, BORDS, BOURD, BREDS, BRODS, BUDOS, DEBUS and 35 more. 9 of the 200 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEBURS, DEBUR, DOBES, DOBE, DORES, RODES, SORED, BES and EDS.
These 12 words take every letter of OBDURES plus a single extra one.