oblivious needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oblivious is the highest-scoring word from oblivious, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in oblivious — and it is oblivious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oblivious produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: obvious, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblivious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils. For points, the strongest plays are ovoli and viols — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oblivious produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, boos and oils. For points, the strongest plays are luvs and viol — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oblivious turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bus, oil, and sub. For points, the strongest plays are luv and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oblivious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in oblivious and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
oblivious 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for oblivious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
oblivious is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oblivious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oblivious, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oblivious 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 oblivious produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.