Jumble solved
Is OBSOLETES a word? Yes.
OBSOLETES is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 11 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 182 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 182
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 4 : 5
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 4 vowels (O, O, E, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 5 remaining consonants (B, S, L, T, S).
Anagrams of OBSOLETES
One word uses all 9 letters:
- obsoletes
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
2 words found7-letter words
5 words found6-letter words
17 words found+ 2 more 6-letter words
5-letter words
49 words found+ 34 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
64 words found+ 49 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
33 words found+ 18 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
11 words foundWords hidden inside OBSOLETES
Without moving a single letter, reading obsoletes straight through uncovers 6 shorter words — obsolete, sole, let, ole, sol, tes. The longest unbroken run is obsolete.
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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
9
Distinct
6
Vowels
44%
O, O, E, E
Consonants
56%
B, S, L, T, S
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Solving OBSOLETES: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters obsoletes?
Rearranging the 9 letters in obsoletes produces 182 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 9-letter answer obsoletes here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does obsoletes have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, obsoletes rearranges into exactly one word: obsoletes.
What is the longest word you can make from obsoletes?
The longest solution is obsoletes at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from obsoletes?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: obsoletes yields bee, bel, bes, bet, boo, bos, bot, eel, els and ess. 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 obsoletes scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, obsoletes is the top scorer from obsoletes at 11 points, followed by bootless (10), obsolete (10) and boletes (9). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside obsoletes?
Read left to right without moving any letters and obsoletes already contains 6 shorter words: obsolete, sole, let, ole, sol and tes. The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is obsolete. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.