Hidden inside aout sit auto and outa, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TOAU, AOTU or OATU and you get the same 4 letters as AOUT: so the words from AOUT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
AOUT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AUTO and OUTA.
auto and outa tie for the highest Scrabble score from aout at 4 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in aout produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto. For points, the strongest plays are auto and outa — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in aout and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are auto and outa, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aout 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 aout produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.