Hidden inside oblations sit boltonias, lobations, and oblations, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 367 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boltonias, lobations, and oblations tie for the highest Scrabble score from oblations at 11 points. The top 10 of 367 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in oblations: two come from rearranging its letters, and oblations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boltonias, lobations, and oblations, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boltonia, boniatos, 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.
Rearranging the letters in oblations produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotions. For points, the strongest plays are albinos, bastion, boniato, bonitas, bonitos, oblasti, and obtains — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oblations turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotion. For points, the strongest plays are ablins, albino, baltis, basion, batons, bionts, biotas, blains, bloats, bolson, bonita, bonito, bonsai, boston, oblast, oboist, obtain, and taboos — 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 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits, blast, boats, boils, boots, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, aboon, bails, baits, balti, basil, basin, baton, binal, bints, biont, biota, bison, blain, blast, blats, bloat, blots, boast, boats, boils, bolas, bolos, bolts, boons, boost, boots, boson, botas, lobos, nabis, noobs, obias, obits, oboli, obols, sabin, sabot, 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 oblations produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, bail, bait, bans, bats, and bits. For points, the strongest plays are albs, bail, bait, bals, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bins, bint, bios, bits, blat, blin, blot, boas, boat, boil, bola, bolo, bolt, boon, boos, boot, bota, bots, labs, libs, lobo, lobs, nabs, nibs, nobs, noob, obas, obia, obis, obit, obol, slab, slob, snib, snob, soba, stab, stob, isba, and tabs — 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 oblations turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, boo, its, and lab. For points, the strongest plays are abs, alb, bal, ban, bas, bat, bin, bio, bis, bit, boa, boo, bos, bot, lab, lib, lob, nab, nib, nob, oba, obi, sab, sib, sob, 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in oblations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oblations and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
oblations 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 oblations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
oblations is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oblations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boltonias, lobations, and oblations, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oblations 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 oblations produce 367 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.