OBSESS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OBSESS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OBSESS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OBSESS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OBSESS
No single letter turns OBSESS into another word.
How OBSESS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in OBSESS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| s | 3 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,552 thousand.
What does OBSESS mean in Scrabble?
verb
To dominate someone's thoughts continually, or to think about something to an excessive or troubling degree.
When a worry or an idea comes to obsess someone, it crowds out other thoughts and keeps returning no matter how hard the person tries to move on, whether the trigger is a stressful deadline or a small mistake replayed over and over. English speakers use obsess both for the thing doing the dominating, as in the fear obsessed him, and reflexively, as in people who obsess over small details. The related adjective obsessive and the clinical phrase obsessive-compulsive both grew from the same root, though obsess itself is used just as often in ordinary, non-clinical speech.
How OBSESS is used
Common in everyday speech, used both for mild preoccupation and for more serious, troubling fixation.
- She began to obsess over every word in the email before sending it.
- A single mistake can obsess him for days afterward.
- Fans obsess over every detail of the show's upcoming season.
- He tried not to obsess about the interview, but he could not stop rehearsing his answers.
- The rumor started to obsess the whole office by Friday afternoon.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OBSESS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OBSESS
The 6 tiles of OBSESS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OBSESS
17 longer words begin with OBSESS.
Shorter words from the letters in OBSESS
Common questions about OBSESS
- Is OBSESS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OBSESS, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OBSESS worth?
- OBSESS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OBSESS mean?
- To dominate someone's thoughts continually, or to think about something to an excessive or troubling degree.
- What letters can be added to OBSESS?
- No single letter can be added to OBSESS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of OBSESS:
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