outstanding needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 576 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outstanding is the highest-scoring word from outstanding, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 576 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in outstanding — and it is outstanding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outstanding produces exactly one ten-letter word: astounding. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outstanding turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outdating and stounding, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donating, sounding, standing, and toasting. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including donating, sounding and standing.
Rearranging the letters in outstanding produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with datings, distant and nations. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including datings, undoing and audings.
Unscrambling outstanding turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dating, donuts and giants. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including dating, auding and dingos.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and doing. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including doing, dangs and dingo.
Rearranging the letters in outstanding produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and anus. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including digs, dogs and gods.
Unscrambling outstanding turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago and aid. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and dug.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
outstanding 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for outstanding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
outstanding is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outstanding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outstanding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outstanding 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 outstanding produce 576 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.