obligatos 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, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligatos is the highest-scoring word from obligatos, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obligatos — and it is obligatos itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligatos produces exactly one eight-letter word: obligato. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obligatos produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is oblasti, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligatos turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bigots and biogas, 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligatos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits, blast, blogs, boats, boils, and boots. For points, the strongest plays are bigos, bigot, biogs, blags, blogs, globs, and gobos — 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 obligatos produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, bags, bail, bait, bats, bits, and blog. For points, the strongest plays are bags, bigs, biog, blag, blog, bogs, gabs, gibs, glib, glob, gobo, and gobs — 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 obligatos turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, bag, bat, big, bit, boo, and gal. 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 obligatos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, so, and to. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in obligatos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in obligatos 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.
obligatos 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 two senses for obligatos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obligatos is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligatos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligatos, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligatos 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 obligatos produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.