obligatory needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligatory is the highest-scoring word from obligatory, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obligatory — and it is obligatory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligatory turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tribology, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligatory. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is oblatory, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obligatory produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biology. For points, the strongest plays are bigotry and biology — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligatory turns up 21 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is trilby, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, booty, glory, labor, robot, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are bigly, bilgy, and boogy — 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 obligatory produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, blog, boat, boil, boot, and brag. For points, the strongest plays are bogy, gaby, and goby — 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 obligatory turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, art, bag, bar, bat, and bay. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, and yob — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligatory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, by, go, it, or, and oy. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
obligatory 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 2-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 obligatory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
obligatory is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligatory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligatory, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligatory 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 obligatory produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.