Hidden inside outlines sit elutions and outlines, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elutions and outlines tie for the highest Scrabble score from outlines at 8 points. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outlines: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outlines 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 elutions and outlines, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outlines produces 9 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 elusion, elution, entoils and 6 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outlines turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insult, listen, silent, and stolen. For points, 35 words tie at 6 points, including insult, listen and silent.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions and louse. For points, 77 words tie at 5 points, including lines, lions and louse.
Rearranging the letters in outlines produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets and lies. For points, 97 words tie at 4 points, including lent, lets and lies.
Unscrambling outlines turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 58 words tie at 3 points, including its, let and lie.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outlines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outlines 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.
outlines 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for outlines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
outlines is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elutions and outlines, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outlines 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 outlines produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.