Hidden inside outstares sit outstares and seatrouts, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 430 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outstares and seatrouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outstares at 9 points. The top 10 of 430 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in outstares: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outstares 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 outstares and seatrouts, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toasters. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including toasters, ossature and outrates.
Rearranging the letters in outstares produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sourest, statues, and toaster. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including sourest, statues and toaster.
Unscrambling outstares turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, roasts and routes. For points, 81 words tie at 6 points, including assure, roasts and routes.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roses and route. For points, 119 words tie at 5 points, including roast, roses and route.
Rearranging the letters in outstares produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and ears. For points, 113 words tie at 4 points, including arts, auto and ears.
Unscrambling outstares turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ass. For points, 62 words tie at 3 points, including are, art and ass.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstares. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including as, at and or.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in outstares plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outstares 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.
outstares 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for outstares. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
outstares is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outstares unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outstares and seatrouts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outstares 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 outstares produce 430 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.