Hidden inside outstands sit outstands and standouts, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outstands and standouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outstands at 10 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in outstands: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outstands 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 outstands and standouts, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstands. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astounds, outstand, and standout, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outstands produces 3 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 astound, soudans, and stounds, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outstands turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donuts, sounds and stands. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including donuts, sounds and stands.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and donut. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including donut, dusts and sands.
Rearranging the letters in outstands produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and aunt. For points, 31 words tie at 5 points, including dots, dust and sand.
Unscrambling outstands turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ant. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including ads, and and dot.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in outstands 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.
outstands 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.
outstands is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outstands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outstands and standouts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outstands 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 outstands produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.