outages needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outages is the highest-scoring word from outages, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in outages — and it is outages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outages turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outage, outgas, teguas, and togues, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, gates, goats, guest, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are agues, gates, getas, goats, goest, gouts, guest, gusto, stage, tegua, tegus, togae, togas, togue, and usage — 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 outages produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, auto, east, eats, egos, gate, and gets. For points, the strongest plays are ages, ague, egos, gaes, gast, gate, gats, gest, geta, gets, goas, goat, goes, gout, gust, guts, sage, sago, sego, stag, tags, tegs, tegu, toga, togs, and tugs — 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 outages turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ate, eat, ego, gas, and get. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ags, ego, gae, gas, gat, get, goa, gos, got, gut, sag, seg, tag, teg, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag 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 outages 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.
outages 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 outages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
outages is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outages, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outages 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 outages produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.