Hidden inside outsider sit outrides and outsider, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outrides and outsider tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsider at 9 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outsider: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outsider 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 outrides and outsider, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsider produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, outside, and steroid. For points, the strongest plays are detours, dourest, dustier, editors, outride, outside, redouts, rousted, sortied, steroid, storied, studier, tedious, and triodes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsider turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, duties, editor, routes, rudest, sorted, and studio. For points, the strongest plays are detour, direst, diseur, dories, doters, dotier, douser, driest, droits, duster, duties, editor, ousted, redout, rioted, roused, routed, rudest, rudist, rusted, sorted, soured, stored, stride, strode, stroud, studio, suited, todies, toured, toused, triode, and uredos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dries, edits, outer, rides, riots, and route. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, dores, doser, doter, dotes, douse, douts, drest, dries, droit, druse, duets, duits, dures, duros, durst, edits, eidos, odist, outed, redos, resid, resod, rides, rodes, roids, rosed, sired, sited, sored, stied, sudor, tides, tired, tried, trode, trued, turds, uredo, and ursid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outsider produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, does, dots, dust, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, doer, does, doit, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, dour, dout, dues, duet, duit, duos, dure, duro, dust, edit, ides, ired, odes, ouds, redo, reds, ride, rids, rode, rods, roid, rude, rued, side, sord, stud, sued, surd, teds, tide, tied, tods, toed, trod, turd, udos, urds, and used — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outsider turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, due, ids, its, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, doe, dor, dos, dot, due, dui, duo, eds, ids, ode, ods, oud, red, rid, rod, sod, ted, tod, udo, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 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 outsider 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.
outsider 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 two senses for outsider. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
outsider is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outrides and outsider, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsider 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 outsider produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.