Hidden inside outpaces sit outpaces and saucepot, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outpaces and saucepot tie for the highest Scrabble score from outpaces at 12 points. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outpaces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outpaces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outpaces and saucepot, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outpaces produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are capotes, cuspate, outpace and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outpaces turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catsup. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including catsup, aspect and capote.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, capes and cause. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including capes, pacts and space.
Rearranging the letters in outpaces produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, apes and auto. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and cops.
Unscrambling outpaces turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ape and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and cup.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and so. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pa.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outpaces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outpaces 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.
outpaces 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 outpaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outpaces is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outpaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outpaces and saucepot, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outpaces 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 outpaces produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.