Hidden inside outsiders sit diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 476 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsiders at 10 points. The top 10 of 476 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in outsiders: two come from rearranging its letters, and outsiders 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 diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outsides and steroids. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including outsides, steroids and desirous.
Rearranging the letters in outsiders produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, outside and serious. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including editors, outside and steroid.
Unscrambling outsiders turns up 92 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, duties and editor. For points, 50 words tie at 7 points, including driest, duties and editor.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dress and dries. For points, 56 words tie at 6 points, including diets, dress and dries.
Rearranging the letters in outsiders produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dirt. For points, 58 words tie at 5 points, including dies, diet and dirt.
Unscrambling outsiders turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and due. For points, 23 words tie at 4 points, including die, dot and due.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsiders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in outsiders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outsiders 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.
outsiders 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 outsiders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outsiders is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsiders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diestrous, dioestrus, and outsiders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsiders 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 outsiders produce 476 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 92 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.