Hidden inside oblikes is one standout: obelisk, a seven-letter play worth 13 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OBSIKEL, BEIKLOS or BISLOKE and you get the same 7 letters as OBLIKES: so the words from OBLIKES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
OBLIKES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OBELISK (noun), a four-sided shaft of stone with a pyramidal top, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
obelisk is the highest-scoring word from oblikes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling oblikes produces exactly one seven-letter word: obelisk. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oblikes produces exactly one six-letter word: blokes. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bikes, boils, and likes. For points, the strongest plays are bikes, bilks, bloke, and kibes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oblikes produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bike, boil and lies. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including bike, bilk and bisk.
Unscrambling oblikes turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, and ski. For points, the strongest play is kob — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, ok, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in oblikes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oblikes 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obelisk, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oblikes 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 oblikes produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.