Hidden inside outest sit outset and setout, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
OUTEST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OUTSET and SETOUT.
outset and setout tie for the highest Scrabble score from outest at 6 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling outest turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outset and setout, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outest. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stout, totes, touse, and touts, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outest produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with test and toes. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including test, toes and oust.
Unscrambling outest turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, set and sue. For points, 16 words tie at 3 points, including out, set and sue.
Swap a single tile in outest and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outset and setout, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outest 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 outest produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.