obliges needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obliges is the highest-scoring word from obliges, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in obliges — and it is obliges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obliges turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bilges, bogies, bogles, globes, gobies, and oblige, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blogs and boils. For points, the strongest plays are bigos, bilge, biogs, blogs, bogie, bogle, gibes, globe, and globs — 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 obliges produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, blog, boil, egos, goes, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bigs, biog, blog, bogs, gibe, gibs, glib, glob, 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 obliges turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, ego, leg, lie, log, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, bog, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, is, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, 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.
Swap a single tile in obliges and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
obliges 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 obliges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
obliges is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obliges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obliges, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obliges 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 obliges produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.