obliging needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obliging is the highest-scoring word from obliging, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in obliging — and it is obliging itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obliging produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boiling. For points, the strongest plays are bilging and globing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obliging 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 biggin and gibing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo and going. For points, the strongest plays are bingo, bling, and boing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obliging produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, boil, lion, and long. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including blog, bing and biog.
Unscrambling obliging turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, gig, log, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are big, bog, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obliging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in obliging and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
obliging 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for obliging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
obliging is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obliging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obliging, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obliging 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 obliging produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.