obligated needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
obligated is the highest-scoring word from obligated, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in obligated — and it is obligated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligated. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is globated, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obligated produces 11 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bigoted and obliged, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligated turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bailed, boiled, and detail. For points, the strongest plays are beglad, bilged, bodega, gabled, and globed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with badge, bagel, blade, dealt, ideal, and table. For points, the strongest plays are badge, begad, debag, and gibed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in obligated produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, aged, bade, bail, bait, bald, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abed, bade, bald, bead, bide, biog, blag, bled, blog, bode, bold, debt, dobe, gibe, glib, and glob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling obligated turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, aid, ate, bad, bag, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are bad, bag, bed, beg, bid, big, bod, bog, dab, deb, dib, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in obligated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, be, do, go, id, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in obligated 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.
obligated 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 3-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 obligated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
obligated is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing obligated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is obligated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from obligated 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 obligated produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.