Hidden inside outpays sit autopsy and payouts, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
OUTPAYS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AUTOPSY and PAYOUTS.
autopsy and payouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outpays at 12 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in outpays 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 words are autopsy and payouts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including atopy, pasty and patsy.
Rearranging the letters in outpays produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, past and pays. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including pays, paty and posy.
Unscrambling outpays turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, pay and pot. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including pay, spy and pya.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outpays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outpays plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outpays 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are autopsy and payouts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outpays 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 outpays produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.