Hidden inside globin sit globin and goblin, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
globin and goblin tie for the highest Scrabble score from globin at 9 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in globin: one comes from rearranging its letters, and globin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are globin and goblin, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in globin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo. For points, the strongest plays are bingo, bling, and boing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in globin produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, boil, lion, and long. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including blog, bing and biog.
Unscrambling globin turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, log, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are big, bog, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in globin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in globin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in globin and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
globin is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for globin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
globin is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing globin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are globin and goblin, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from globin earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in globin produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.