Hidden inside outlets sit letouts and outlets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
letouts and outlets tie for the highest Scrabble score from outlets at 7 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outlets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outlets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outlets. For points, the strongest plays are letouts and outlets — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louse and stole. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including louse, stole and lotte.
Rearranging the letters in outlets produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose and lost. For points, 36 words tie at 4 points, including lets, lose and lost.
Unscrambling outlets turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and out. For points, 24 words tie at 3 points, including let, lot and out.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outlets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outlets 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.
outlets 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 four senses for outlets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
outlets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are letouts and outlets, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outlets 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 outlets produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.