Hidden inside buyouts sit buyouts and outbuys, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buyouts and outbuys tie for the highest Scrabble score from buyouts at 12 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in buyouts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buyouts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buyouts and outbuys, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buyouts. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bousy, buoys, busty, and outby, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buyouts produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boys, bust and busy. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including boys, busy and buys.
Unscrambling buyouts turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boy, bus and but. For points, the strongest plays are boy, buy, bys, and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in buyouts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buyouts and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
buyouts 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 buyouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
buyouts is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buyouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buyouts and outbuys, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buyouts 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 buyouts produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.