obligingly needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligingly is the highest-scoring word from obligingly, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in obligingly — and it is obligingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligingly produces exactly one nine-letter word: boilingly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligingly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is gibingly, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obligingly produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with billion and boiling. For points, the strongest play is ignobly — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligingly turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bloggy and gybing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biggy, bingo, going, and lying. For points, the strongest plays are biggy and boggy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obligingly produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bill, blog and boil. For points, the strongest plays are bogy and goby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obligingly turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, boy and gig. For points, the strongest plays are boy and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, go and in. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
obligingly 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 obligingly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
obligingly is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligingly, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligingly 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 obligingly produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.