Hidden inside outlays sit layouts and outlays, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
layouts and outlays tie for the highest Scrabble score from outlays at 10 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outlays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outlays 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 layouts and outlays, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlays 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 layout, outlay, and outsay, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, lousy, and salty. For points, the strongest plays are lousy, lusty, salty, and slaty — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outlays produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, auto, last, lays, lost, lots, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are lays, oaty, slay, soya, stay, toys, and yous — each 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 outlays turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lay, lot, out, sat, say, soy, and toy. For points, the strongest plays are ays, lay, say, sly, soy, sty, toy, yas, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, oy, so, to, and us. 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 outlays 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.
outlays 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 outlays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outlays is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are layouts and outlays, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outlays 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 outlays produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.