outlying 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, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outlying is the highest-scoring word from outlying, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outlying — and it is outlying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outlying produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is goutily, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlying turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilty. For points, the strongest plays are glinty, guilty, loungy, lungyi, tingly, and toying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilt, lying, tying, until, and young. For points, the strongest plays are gouty, guyot, lingy, lying, tying, yogin, and young — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outlying produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, lion, long, lung, only, tiny, and ugly. For points, the strongest plays are gyno, logy, ugly, and yogi — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlying turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun, gut, guy, lit, log, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are goy and guy — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, oy, and to. For points, the strongest plays are oy 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 outlying 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.
outlying 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 one sense for outlying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outlying is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outlying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outlying 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 outlying produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.