Hidden inside outsets sit outsets and setouts, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outsets and setouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsets at 7 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outsets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outsets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outsets and setouts, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsets turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outset, setous, setout, stouts, and touses, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tests. For points, the strongest plays are ousts, setts, souse, stets, stots, stout, suets, tests, totes, touse, and touts — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsets produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sets, sues, test, toes, toss, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are ests, oses, oust, outs, sets, sett, sots, sous, stet, stot, sues, suet, test, tets, toes, toss, tost, tote, tots, tout, tuts, uses, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsets turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, set, sue, toe, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ess, est, oes, ose, out, set, sos, sot, sou, sue, sus, tes, tet, toe, tot, tut, use, ute, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are es, et, oe, os, so, te, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in outsets 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.
outsets 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for outsets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
outsets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outsets and setouts, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsets 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 outsets produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.