Unscramble OBSTACLE and you have 246 words, OBSTACLE itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. CABLETS and COBALTS are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for leostabc, cobaltse, bestcoal, lebtasoc, castlebo, blasecot, caoslebt or sabelcot? They use the same letters as OBSTACLE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from OBSTACLE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 9 with 7, 34 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
Among 34 6-letter words in OBSTACLE, the top score is 10, reached by 4. TABLES, CABLES and CASTLE are the familiar ones.
BLOCS, CABLE and COBLE are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble OBSTACLE, 9 points each. CLOSE, COAST and BOATS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from OBSTACLE, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. BEST, CASE and ABLE are the ones most people know.
BAC, CAB and COB are the top 3-letter words you get when you unscramble OBSTACLE, 7 points each. LET, ACT and LOT will look familiar.
These 6 words have the length of OBSTACLE, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with OB · ending in LE · all 8-letter words
OBSTACLE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. OBSTACLE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBSTACLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 246) | 201 | 246 | 184 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
45 of the 246 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALECOST, SCATOLE, ABLETS, BACS, BASTLE, BLAEST, BLATES, CLOTES, COATES, LACETS, OCTALS, SCLATE and 33 more. 17 of the 246 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TELCOS, BEALS, CALOS, BAES, BEAL, CALS, BAE, BES, CAL, ECO, LOC, OBA and 5 more.
These 7 words take every letter of OBSTACLE plus a single extra one.