Hidden inside outcast sit outacts and outcast, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outacts and outcast tie for the highest Scrabble score from outcast at 9 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outcast: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outcast 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 outacts and outcast, 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 outcast turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cottas and outact, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, coast, coats, scout, tacos, and toast. For points, the strongest plays are ascot, coast, coats, costa, cotta, scatt, scout, scuta, tacos, and tacts — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outcast produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, auto, cast, cats, coat, cost, and cuts. For points, the strongest plays are acts, cast, cats, coat, cost, cots, cuts, ocas, scat, scot, scut, soca, taco, and tact — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outcast turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cat, cut, out, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, cat, cos, cot, cut, oca, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are as, at, os, so, ta, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 outcast 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.
outcast 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for outcast. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
outcast is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outcast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outacts and outcast, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outcast 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 outcast produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.