Hidden inside outdone sit duotone and outdone, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duotone and outdone tie for the highest Scrabble score from outdone at 8 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outdone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outdone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duotone and outdone, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outdone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut and tuned. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including donut, tuned and noted.
Rearranging the letters in outdone produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, note and nude. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including done, nude and tend.
Unscrambling outdone turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due and end. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including dot, due and end.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outdone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outdone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outdone 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.
outdone 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.
outdone is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outdone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duotone and outdone, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outdone 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 outdone produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.