Hidden inside outshout sit outshout and shoutout, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outshout and shoutout tie for the highest Scrabble score from outshout at 11 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outshout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outshout 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 outshout and shoutout, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outshout produces 2 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 outshot and shutout, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outshout produces exactly one six-letter word: tooths. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shoot, shout, south, and tooth. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including shoot, shout and south.
Rearranging the letters in outshout produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, shoo and shot. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including host, shoo and shot.
Unscrambling outshout turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, oho and out. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including hot, oho and tho.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outshout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outshout plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outshout 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.
outshout 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 outshout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
outshout is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outshout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outshout and shoutout, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outshout 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 outshout produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.