Hidden inside buildout sit buildout and outbuild, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buildout and outbuild tie for the highest Scrabble score from buildout at 11 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in buildout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buildout itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buildout and outbuild, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling buildout turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is outbid, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buildout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with build, built, and doubt. For points, the strongest plays are build and doubt — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buildout produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, bold, loud, and told. For points, the strongest play is bold — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buildout turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, bit, bud, but, dot, lid, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are bid, bod, bud, dib, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buildout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, it, and to. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in buildout and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
buildout is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
buildout is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buildout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buildout and outbuild, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buildout 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 buildout produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.