Jumble solved
Is OBSESSES a word? Yes.
OBSESSES is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 8 letters, worth 10 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 30 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 30
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 8 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 3 : 5
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 3 vowels (O, E, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 5 remaining consonants (B, S, S, S, S).
Anagrams of OBSESSES
One word uses all 8 letters:
- obsesses
8-letter words
1 word found- obsesses10
6-letter words
2 words found5-letter words
3 words found4-letter words
8 words found3-letter words
10 words found2-letter words
6 words foundWords hidden inside OBSESSES
Without moving a single letter, reading obsesses straight through uncovers 4 shorter words — obsess, esses, esse, ess. The longest unbroken run is obsess.
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Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
8
Distinct
4
Vowels
38%
O, E, E
Consonants
62%
B, S, S, S, S
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Solving OBSESSES: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters obsesses?
Rearranging the 8 letters in obsesses produces 30 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 8-letter answer obsesses here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does obsesses have any anagrams?
Using all 8 letters, obsesses rearranges into exactly one word: obsesses.
What is the longest word you can make from obsesses?
The longest solution is obsesses at 8 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from obsesses?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: obsesses yields bee, bes, bos, ess, obe, oes, ose, see, sob and sos. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from obsesses scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, obsesses is the top scorer from obsesses at 10 points, followed by bosses (8), obsess (8) and beses (7). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside obsesses?
Read left to right without moving any letters and obsesses already contains 4 shorter words: obsess, esses, esse and ess. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is obsess. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.