outshone needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outshone is the highest-scoring word from outshone, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outshone — and it is outshone itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with house, hunts and notes. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including house, hunts and shone.
Rearranging the letters in outshone produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, hose and host. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including hens, hose and host.
Unscrambling outshone turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, hot and net. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including hen, hot and oho.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and ho. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outshone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outshone 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.
outshone 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.
outshone is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outshone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outshone, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outshone 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 outshone produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.