obloquy needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obloquy is the highest-scoring word from obloquy, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in obloquy — and it is obloquy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling obloquy produces exactly one five-letter word: looby. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in obloquy produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boyo and buoy, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
obloquy 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 2-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 obloquy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
obloquy is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obloquy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obloquy, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obloquy 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 obloquy produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.