Hidden inside outguns sit outguns and outsung, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outguns and outsung tie for the highest Scrabble score from outguns at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outguns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outguns 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 outguns and outsung, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outguns produces exactly one six-letter word: outgun. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outguns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stung. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including stung, gouts and gusto.
Rearranging the letters in outguns produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts and nuts. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including guns, guts and song.
Unscrambling outguns turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun and gut. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including got, gun and gut.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outguns plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outguns 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.
outguns 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.
outguns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outguns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outguns and outsung, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outguns 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 outguns produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.