obligate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligate is the highest-scoring word from obligate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obligate — and it is obligate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligate produces exactly one seven-letter word: globate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligate turns up 18 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are giblet, goblet, and oblige, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bagel and table. For points, the strongest plays are bagel, begat, begot, belga, bigot, bilge, bogie, bogle, gable, gleba, and globe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obligate produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bail, bait, beat, belt, bite, and blog. For points, the strongest plays are biog, blag, blog, gibe, glib, and glob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligate turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ate, bag, bat, beg, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, big, bog, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, be, go, it, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 obligate 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.
obligate 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 four senses for obligate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
obligate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligate 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 obligate produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 18 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.