outcomes needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outcomes is the highest-scoring word from outcomes, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outcomes — and it is outcomes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outcomes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costume. For points, the strongest plays are costume and outcome — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outcomes turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comets, comose, comous and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comes, moose, mouse, and scout. For points, the strongest plays are comes, comet, comte, and cosmo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outcomes produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, cost and cues. For points, the strongest plays are come, cums, mocs, and scum — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outcomes turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and met. For points, the strongest plays are cum and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so and to. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
Swap a single tile in outcomes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
outcomes 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 3-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 outcomes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outcomes is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outcomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outcomes, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outcomes 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 outcomes produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.