obligation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 290 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligation is the highest-scoring word from obligation, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 290 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obligation — and it is obligation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligation produces exactly one nine-letter word: abolition. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bloating, longboat, obligati, obligato, and tabooing, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obligation produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bailing and boiling. For points, the strongest plays are bailing, baiting, biltong, boating, boiling, bologna, bolting, booting, and tabling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligation turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biting, booing, and lotion. For points, the strongest plays are bagnio, baling, bating, biting, booing, gabion, gaboon, globin, goblin, and oblong — 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 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, bingo, giant, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are bigot, bingo, bling, bogan, boing, bongo, and goban — 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 obligation produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, bang, blog, boat, boil, and boot. For points, the strongest plays are bang, bing, biog, blag, blog, bong, glib, glob, and gobo — 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 obligation turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are bag, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in obligation plus one additional letter.
obligation 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for obligation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obligation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligation 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 obligation produce 290 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 11 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.