Hidden inside outline sit elution and outline, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elution and outline tie for the highest Scrabble score from outline at 7 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outline: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outline 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 elution and outline, 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 outline 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 entoil, lutein, and outlie, 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with until. For points, the strongest plays are elint, eloin, inlet, intel, lento, louie, lunet, olein, outie, teloi, toile, tuile, unite, unlet, unlit, untie, until, and utile — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outline produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, lent, line, lion, note, tone, and tune. For points, the strongest plays are enol, etui, into, leno, lent, lien, lieu, line, lino, lint, lion, lite, litu, loin, lone, loti, lout, lune, lunt, lute, nite, noel, noil, note, tein, tile, tine, toil, tole, tolu, tone, tule, tune, unit, and unto — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outline turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lie, lit, lot, net, not, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are eon, ion, lei, let, leu, lie, lin, lit, lot, lun, net, nil, nit, not, nut, oil, ole, one, out, tel, ten, tie, til, tin, toe, ton, tui, tun, uni, and ute — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outline. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, et, in, it, li, lo, ne, no, nu, oe, oi, on, te, ti, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 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 outline 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.
outline 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 six senses for outline. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
outline is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outline unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elution and outline, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outline 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 outline produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.