outage needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TAUGEO, TOAGUE or TAGUEO and you get the same 6 letters as OUTAGE: so the words from OUTAGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
outage is the highest-scoring word from outage, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in outage — and it is outage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outage. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tegua, togae, and togue, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outage produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, gate, and goat. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including gate, goat and ague.
Unscrambling outage turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ate. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including age, ago and ego.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in outage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outage 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.
outage 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 two senses for outage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
outage is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outage, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outage 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 outage produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.