Hidden inside goblins sit globins and goblins, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SINGBOL, OBSLING or BLONGIS and you get the same 7 letters as GOBLINS: so the words from GOBLINS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
globins and goblins tie for the highest Scrabble score from goblins at 10 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in goblins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and goblins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are globins and goblins, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling goblins turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including bingos, blings and boings.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goblins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, blogs, boils, and lions. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including bingo, blogs and bigos.
Rearranging the letters in goblins produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, boil and lion. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including blog, bigs and bing.
Unscrambling goblins turns up 32 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goblins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in goblins plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in goblins and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
goblins 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 goblins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
goblins is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goblins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are globins and goblins, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from goblins 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 goblins produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.