Hidden inside outsinning sit nonsuiting and outsinning, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonsuiting and outsinning tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsinning at 11 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in outsinning: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outsinning itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nonsuiting and outsinning, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsinning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stunning. For points, the strongest plays are intoning, nonusing, snouting, and stunning — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outsinning produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suiting. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including suiting, innings and noising.
Unscrambling outsinning turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tuning and unions. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including tuning, ingots and inning.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsinning. 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 outsinning produces 47 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 outsinning turns up 39 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 outsinning. 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.
outsinning 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outsinning is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsinning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonsuiting and outsinning, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsinning 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 outsinning produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.