outpasses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 278 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outpasses is the highest-scoring word from outpasses, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 278 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in outpasses — and it is outpasses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outpasses produces exactly one eight-letter word: uptosses. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outpasses produces 7 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 outpass, petasos, petasus and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outpasses turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passes, pauses and setups. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including passes, pauses and setups.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpasses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, autos and pasts. For points, 45 words tie at 7 points, including pasts, pause and poets.
Rearranging the letters in outpasses produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, auto and east. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including apes, pass and past.
Unscrambling outpasses turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass and ate. For points, 27 words tie at 5 points, including ape, pea and pet.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpasses. 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.
Swap a single tile in outpasses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
outpasses 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outpasses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outpasses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outpasses, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outpasses 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 outpasses produce 278 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.