Hidden inside ousting sit ousting, outings, outsing and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ousting, outings, outsing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ousting at 8 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in ousting: three come from rearranging its letters, and ousting 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 ousting, outings, outsing, and tousing, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ousting turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ingots, outing, stingo, and tigons, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ousting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting, stung, suing, units, and using. For points, the strongest plays are gouts, gusto, ingot, sting, stung, suing, tigon, tings, tongs, tungs, ungot, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ousting produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts, into, nuts, sign, sing, and song. For points, the strongest plays are gins, gist, gits, gnus, gout, guns, gust, guts, nogs, nugs, sign, sing, snog, snug, song, sung, ting, togs, tong, tugs, and tung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ousting turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun, gut, its, not, nut, and out. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, gnu, gos, got, gun, gut, nog, nug, sig, tog, and tug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ousting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 ousting 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.
ousting 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 one sense for ousting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ousting is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ousting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ousting, outings, outsing, and tousing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ousting 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 ousting produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.