blackouts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blackouts is the highest-scoring word from blackouts, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in blackouts — and it is blackouts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackouts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are backlots, backouts, blackout and 2 more, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blackouts produces 7 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 backlot, backout, outback, and sackbut, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blackouts turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blocks. For points, the strongest plays are blacks, blocks, and buckos — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, autos and backs. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including backs, black and block.
Rearranging the letters in blackouts produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and auto. For points, the strongest plays are back, bock, and buck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blackouts turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ask and bat. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kab, and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in blackouts 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.
blackouts 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for blackouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
blackouts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blackouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blackouts, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blackouts 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 blackouts produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.