Unscramble LOBATION and you have 171 words, LOBATION itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. LOBATION has 2 anagrams here, BOLTONIA and OBLATION, scoring 10 like LOBATION itself. BITONAL and BONIATO are the best of the shorter words, at 9 points. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from LOBATION split into 3 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 10 with 6, 20 with 5, 60 with 4, 53 with 3 and 23 with 2.
27 of 60 4-letter words from LOBATION tie at 6 points; none scores more. LOAN, ANTI and BOAT will look familiar.
Of the 53 3-letter words in LOBATION, 23 score 5 points, the group's best. NOT, TOO and LOT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LOBATION but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with LO · ending in ON · all 8-letter words
What LOBATION means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
LOBATION works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOBATION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 171) | 141 | 170 | 133 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 30 of them: BITONAL, BATOON, LIBANT, OBITAL, BALOO, BOOAI, OOBIT, BANT, BITO, BLIT, BONA, BOOL and 18 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: BONIATO, BALTI, NOOB, OBA, LOTO, TIAN, ONO and OI. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: BINT.
These 5 words take every letter of LOBATION plus a single extra one.