Hidden inside outburns sit burnouts and outburns, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
burnouts and outburns tie for the highest Scrabble score from outburns at 10 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outburns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outburns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burnouts and outburns, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outburns produces 7 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 burnous, burnout, burtons and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outburns turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bourns, brunts, burton and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outburns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bonus, burns and burnt. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including bonus, burns and burnt.
Rearranging the letters in outburns produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with born, buns and burn. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including born, buns and burn.
Unscrambling outburns turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bun, bus and but. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including bun, bus and but.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outburns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, the strongest play is bo — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in outburns plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outburns and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
outburns 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.
outburns is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outburns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burnouts and outburns, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outburns 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 outburns produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.