Hidden inside outbuilds sit buildouts and outbuilds, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buildouts and outbuilds tie for the highest Scrabble score from outbuilds at 12 points. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in outbuilds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outbuilds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buildouts and outbuilds, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outbuilds. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buildout and outbuild, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outbuilds produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dubious and outbids, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outbuilds turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with builds, doubts, and studio. For points, the strongest plays are builds, doubts, and outbid — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outbuilds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils, build, built, doubt, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are bolds, build, and doubt — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outbuilds produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, bits, boil, bold, buds, bust, and dibs. For points, the strongest plays are bids, bods, bold, buds, dibs, and dubs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outbuilds turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, bit, bud, bus, but, dot, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are bid, bod, bud, dib, and dub — each worth 6 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 outbuilds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 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 outbuilds and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
outbuilds 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outbuilds is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outbuilds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buildouts and outbuilds, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outbuilds 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 outbuilds produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.