outshines needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outshines is the highest-scoring word from outshines, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in outshines — and it is outshines itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshines. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are histones, housesit, housiest and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outshines produces 10 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 ethions, heinous, histone and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outshines turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honest, houses and noises. For points, 23 words tie at 9 points, including honest, houses and shiest.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, hoses and hosts. For points, 40 words tie at 8 points, including hints, hoses and hosts.
Rearranging the letters in outshines produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, hint and hits. For points, 45 words tie at 7 points, including hens, hint and hits.
Unscrambling outshines turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his and hit. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including hen, his and hit.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshines. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in outshines plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outshines and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
outshines 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 two senses for outshines. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outshines is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outshines unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outshines, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outshines 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 outshines produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.