outranks 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, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outranks is the highest-scoring word from outranks, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outranks — and it is outranks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outranks produces 4 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 korunas, outrank, and santoku, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outranks turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trunks. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including trunks, knaurs and knouts.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outranks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and knots. For points, 36 words tie at 9 points, including knots, stank and stunk.
Rearranging the letters in outranks produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and arts. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including knot, sank and soak.
Unscrambling outranks turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and ask. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and auk.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outranks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in outranks 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.
outranks 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 one sense for outranks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outranks is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outranks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outranks, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outranks 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 outranks produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.