outlaws needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outlaws is the highest-scoring word from outlaws, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in outlaws — and it is outlaws itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlaws. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos. For points, the strongest plays are awols and wauls — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outlaws produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, auto and last. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including laws, owls and slow.
Unscrambling outlaws turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with law, lot and low. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including law, low and owl.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlaws. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outlaws plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outlaws 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.
outlaws 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for outlaws. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outlaws is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlaws unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outlaws, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outlaws 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 outlaws produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.