outstay needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outstay is the highest-scoring word from outstay, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in outstay — and it is outstay itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outstay turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outsay and toasty, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, tasty, and toast. For points, the strongest play is tasty — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outstay produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, soya, stat, stay, and toys. For points, the strongest plays are oaty, soya, stay, toys, and yous — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outstay turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with out, sat, say, soy, toy, and you. For points, the strongest plays are ays, say, soy, sty, toy, yas, and you — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, oy, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in outstay and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
outstay 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in outstay carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for outstay. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outstay is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outstay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outstay, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outstay 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 outstay produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.