outsmarts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 292 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outsmarts is the highest-scoring word from outsmarts, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 292 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in outsmarts — and it is outsmarts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsmarts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mutators, outsmart, and stratums, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsmarts produces 6 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 mutator, stratum, strumas, and utmosts, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsmarts turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roasts, starts, status, storms, toasts, trusts, and tumors. For points, the strongest plays are amours, morass, ramous, smarts, stomas, storms, stroma, struma, strums, tumors, and utmost — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsmarts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, autos, roast, smart, sorts, stars, and start. For points, the strongest plays are amort, amour, arums, atoms, marts, masts, matts, mauts, moats, moras, morts, mosts, motts, muras, musos, musts, mutts, ramus, roams, smart, smuts, somas, stoma, storm, strum, stums, sumos, trams, and tumor — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsmarts produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, atom, auto, mass, most, and must. For points, the strongest plays are amus, arms, arum, atom, mars, mart, mass, mast, mats, matt, maut, moas, moat, mora, mors, mort, moss, most, mots, mott, mura, muso, muss, must, muts, mutt, omas, rams, roam, roms, rums, smut, soma, soms, stum, sumo, sums, tams, toms, tram, and tums — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsmarts turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art, ass, our, out, rat, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are amu, arm, mar, mas, mat, moa, mor, mos, mot, mus, mut, oma, oms, ram, rom, rum, som, sum, tam, tom, tum, and ums — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsmarts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, or, so, to, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in outsmarts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outsmarts 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.
outsmarts 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 2-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 outsmarts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
outsmarts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsmarts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outsmarts, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outsmarts 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 outsmarts produce 292 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.