obligates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 539 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligates is the highest-scoring word from obligates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 539 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obligates — and it is obligates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is obligate, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obligates produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate. For points, the strongest plays are giblets, globate, goblets, and obliges — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligates turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, bagels, and tables. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including bagels, belgas and bigots.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, bagel and bails. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including bagel, blogs and begat.
Rearranging the letters in obligates produces 189 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ages and also. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including bags, begs and blog.
Unscrambling obligates turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ate. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including bag, beg and big.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and be. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, ab and ba.
Swap a single tile in obligates 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.
obligates 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 obligates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obligates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligates 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 obligates produce 539 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 189 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.