Hidden inside outlay sit layout and outlay, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
layout and outlay tie for the highest Scrabble score from outlay at 9 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in outlay: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outlay itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are layout and outlay, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outlay produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto. For points, the strongest play is oaty — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlay turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lay, lot, out, toy, and you. For points, the strongest plays are lay, toy, and you — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 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 outlay 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.
outlay 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 1-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 outlay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
outlay is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are layout and outlay, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outlay 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 outlay produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.