Hidden inside outsiders sit diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 476 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsiders at 10 points. The top 10 of 476 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in outsiders: two come from rearranging its letters, and outsiders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outsides and steroids. For points, the strongest plays are desirous, diestrus, outdress, outrides, outsider, outsides, steroids, studiers, and sturdies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsiders produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, outside, serious, sourest, steroid, stories, and studies. For points, the strongest plays are detours, diseurs, dissert, dossier, dourest, dousers, dusters, dustier, editors, outride, outside, redouts, rousted, rudists, sortied, steroid, storied, strides, strouds, studier, studies, studios, sudsier, tedious, tissued, triodes, and trussed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsiders turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, duties, editor, resist, routes, rudest, and sister. For points, the strongest plays are deists, desist, detour, direst, diseur, disuse, dories, dosers, dosser, doters, dotier, douser, douses, driest, droits, druses, duress, duster, duties, editor, issued, odists, ousted, redout, resids, resods, rioted, roused, routed, rudest, rudist, rusted, sorted, soured, soused, stored, stride, strode, stroud, studio, sudors, sudser, suited, todies, tossed, toured, toused, triode, uredos, and ursids — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dress, dries, dusts, edits, issue, and outer. For points, the strongest plays are deist, desis, diets, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, dores, doser, doses, doter, dotes, douse, douts, dress, drest, dries, droit, dross, druse, duets, duits, dures, duros, durst, dusts, edits, eidos, odist, outed, redos, resid, resod, rides, rodes, roids, rosed, sides, sired, sited, sords, sored, stied, studs, sudor, surds, sused, tides, tired, tried, trode, trued, turds, uredo, and ursid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsiders produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, does, dots, dust, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, diss, dite, dits, doer, does, doit, dore, dors, dose, doss, dost, dote, dots, dour, dout, dues, duet, duit, duos, dure, duro, dust, edit, ides, ired, odes, ouds, redo, reds, ride, rids, rode, rods, roid, rude, rued, side, sods, sord, stud, suds, sued, surd, teds, tide, tied, tods, toed, trod, turd, udos, urds, and used — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsiders turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, due, ids, its, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, doe, dor, dos, dot, due, dui, duo, eds, ids, ode, ods, oud, red, rid, rod, sod, ted, tod, udo, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in outsiders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outsiders 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.
outsiders 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 outsiders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outsiders is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsiders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsiders 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 outsiders produce 476 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.