obliging
Obliging is also used as adjective, with meanings including showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others.
Length
8
Scrabble
12
WWF
17
Starts
OB
Ends
ING
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “OBLIGING” Mean?
/əˈblaɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
obliging has 1 documented sense across adjective.
Adjective
1 senseshowing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
“to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover”
“the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave”
Synonyms
Synonyms for OBLIGING
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
8
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
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Definition
showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
Length
8 letters
Starts With
O
Ends With
G
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Letters
O, B, L, I, G, I, N, G
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆OBLIGING has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆OBLIGING is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆OBLIGING can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆OBLIGING contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
6
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
B
Letter Pattern
ABCDEDFE
CV Pattern
VCCVCVCC
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
OB, BL, LI, IG, GI, IN, NG
Trigrams
OBL, BLI, LIG, IGI, GIN, ING
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