Hidden inside buyout sit buyout and outbuy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buyout and outbuy tie for the highest Scrabble score from buyout at 11 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in buyout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buyout itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buyout and outbuy, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buyout produces exactly one five-letter word: outby. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buyout produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buoy and toby, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in buyout plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buyout and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
buyout 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 2-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 buyout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
buyout is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buyout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buyout and outbuy, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buyout 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 buyout produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.