outgun needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outgun is the highest-scoring word from outgun, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in outgun — and it is outgun itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outgun produces exactly one five-letter word: ungot. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outgun produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gout, tong, and tung, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in outgun 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.
outgun 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.
outgun is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outgun unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outgun, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outgun 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 outgun produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.