oblige needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oblige is the highest-scoring word from oblige, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in oblige — and it is oblige itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblige. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bilge, bogie, bogle, and globe, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oblige produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog and boil. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including blog, biog and gibe.
Unscrambling oblige turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big and ego. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including beg, big and bog.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblige. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and go. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in oblige plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oblige and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
oblige 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 three senses for oblige. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
oblige is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oblige unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oblige, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oblige 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 oblige produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.