oblong needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BOOLGN, GLBOON or GOBOLN and you get the same 6 letters as OBLONG: so the words from OBLONG listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
oblong is the highest-scoring word from oblong, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in oblong — and it is oblong itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oblong produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog and long. For points, the strongest plays are blog, bong, glob, and gobo — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in oblong plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oblong and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
oblong 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 three senses for oblong. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
oblong is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oblong unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oblong, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oblong 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 oblong produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.