Hidden inside outrates sit outrates, outstare, and seatrout, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outrates, outstare, and seatrout tie for the highest Scrabble score from outrates at 8 points. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in outrates: two come from rearranging its letters, and outrates 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 outrates, outstare, and seatrout, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outrates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toaster. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including toaster, outeats and outrate.
Unscrambling outrates turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with routes, statue, treats, and truest. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including routes, statue and treats.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, outer and rates. For points, 78 words tie at 5 points, including autos, outer and rates.
Rearranging the letters in outrates produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and ears. For points, 101 words tie at 4 points, including arts, auto and ears.
Unscrambling outrates turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 58 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ate.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outrates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
9 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outrates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outrates 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.
outrates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outrates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outrates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outrates, outstare, and seatrout, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outrates 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 outrates produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.