outbuildings needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 632 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outbuildings is the highest-scoring word from outbuildings, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 632 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in outbuildings — and it is outbuildings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outbuildings produces exactly one eleven-letter word: outbuilding. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outbuildings turns up 8 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buildings. For points, the strongest plays are blindguts and buildings — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outbuildings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with building, doubling, and doubting. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including building, doubling and doubting.
Rearranging the letters in outbuildings produces 63 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boiling, busting and listing. For points, the strongest plays are bodings and bolding — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outbuildings turns up 95 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biting, builds and donuts. For points, the strongest plays are biding and boding — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 129 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outbuildings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with binds, bingo and blind. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including binds, bingo and blind.
Rearranging the letters in outbuildings produces 185 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, bind and bits. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including bids, bind and blog.
Unscrambling outbuildings turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, big and bit. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including bid, big and bud.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outbuildings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
outbuildings 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 6-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 outbuildings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
outbuildings is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outbuildings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outbuildings, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outbuildings 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 outbuildings produce 632 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 8 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 63 seven-letter words, 95 six-letter words, 129 five-letter words, 185 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.