Hidden inside outcrying sit congruity and outcrying, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
congruity and outcrying tie for the highest Scrabble score from outcrying at 15 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in outcrying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outcrying 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 congruity and outcrying, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling outcrying produces exactly one eight-letter word: courting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outcrying produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with country. For points, the strongest plays are country and tyronic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outcrying turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with county, crying, curing, trying, and yogurt. For points, the strongest plays are coying, cringy, and crying — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcrying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, court, groin, irony, tying, and young. For points, the strongest play is yogic — 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 outcrying produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, coin, corn, into, iron, orgy, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are city, cony, and cory — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outcrying turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cry, cut, got, gun, gut, and guy. For points, the strongest plays are coy, cry, and icy — each worth 8 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 outcrying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and oy. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 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 outcrying 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.
outcrying 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outcrying is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outcrying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are congruity and outcrying, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outcrying 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 outcrying produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.