obligating needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligating is the highest-scoring word from obligating, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obligating — and it is obligating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligating. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is obliging, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obligating produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bailing and boiling. For points, the strongest plays are bilging, gabling, gigabit, and globing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligating turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biting. For points, the strongest plays are biggin, gibing, and gobang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, along and bingo. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including bingo, bigot and bling.
Rearranging the letters in obligating produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait and bang. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including bang, blog and bing.
Unscrambling obligating turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant and bag. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including bag, big and bog.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
obligating 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
obligating is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligating, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligating 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 obligating produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.