Hidden inside oblation sit boltonia, lobation, and oblation, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boltonia, lobation, and oblation tie for the highest Scrabble score from oblation at 10 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in oblation: two come from rearranging its letters, and oblation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boltonia, lobation, and oblation, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling oblation produces exactly one seven-letter word: boniato. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oblation turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotion. For points, the strongest plays are albino, bonita, bonito, and obtain — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblation. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aboil, aboon, balti, baton, binal, biont, biota, blain, bloat, oboli, and taboo, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oblation produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, boat, boil, boot, into, and lion. For points, the strongest plays are bail, bait, bani, bint, blat, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolo, bolt, boon, boot, bota, lobo, noob, obia, obit, and obol — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oblation turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, boo, lab, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are alb, bal, ban, bat, bin, bio, bit, boa, boo, bot, lab, lib, lob, nab, nib, nob, oba, obi, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in oblation and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
oblation 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for oblation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
oblation is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oblation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boltonia, lobation, and oblation, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oblation 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 oblation produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.