Hidden inside outsmart sit mutators and outsmart, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mutators and outsmart tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsmart at 10 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outsmart: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outsmart itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mutators and outsmart, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outsmart produces 2 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 and stratum, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outsmart turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tumors. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including tumors, amours and ramous.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsmart. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, autos and roast. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including atoms, smart and storm.
Rearranging the letters in outsmart produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and atom. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including arms, atom and most.
Unscrambling outsmart turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, art and our. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including arm, rum and amu.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsmart. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outsmart plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outsmart and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
outsmart 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 outsmart. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outsmart is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsmart unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mutators and outsmart, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsmart 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 outsmart produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.