Hidden inside outings sit ousting, outings, outsing and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOUNGIT, INGOTSU or SOUNTIG and you get the same 7 letters as OUTINGS: so the words from OUTINGS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ousting, outings, outsing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from outings at 8 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in outings: three come from rearranging its letters, and outings 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 ousting, outings, outsing, and tousing, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outings 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 ingots, outing, stingo, and tigons, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting, stung and suing. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including sting, stung and suing.
Rearranging the letters in outings produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts and into. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including guns, guts and sign.
Unscrambling outings turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun and gut. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including got, gun and gut.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
14 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outings 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.
outings 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 3-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 outings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
outings is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ousting, outings, outsing, and tousing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outings 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 outings produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.