Hidden inside outtrades sit outstared and outtrades, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 524 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outstared and outtrades tie for the highest Scrabble score from outtrades at 10 points. The top 10 of 524 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in outtrades: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outtrades 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 outstared and outtrades, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outtrades. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outdares, outdates, outrated, outreads, outtrade, readouts, and statured, 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 outtrades produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with started, toasted, toaster, and trusted. For points, the strongest plays are aroused, detours, dotters, dourest, outdare, outdate, outread, readout, redouts, roasted, rotated, rousted, started, statued, testudo, tetrads, toasted, torsade, trusted, and tutored — 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 outtrades turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, routes, rudest, sorted, stared, statue, and tasted. For points, the strongest plays are adores, autoed, daters, dattos, derats, detour, doters, dotter, douras, douser, duster, orated, oreads, ousted, ratted, redout, rotted, roused, routed, rudest, rusted, rutted, sarode, sauted, soared, sorted, sotted, soured, stared, stated, stored, strode, stroud, tarted, tasted, tauted, tetrad, toured, toused, touted, trades, treads, 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 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outtrades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, autos, dares, dates, dears, outer, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are adore, adust, atted, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, datto, dauts, dears, derat, doats, doers, doest, dores, dorsa, doser, doter, dotes, doura, douse, douts, drats, drest, druse, duets, duras, dures, duros, durst, oared, oread, outed, rased, rated, reads, redos, resod, roads, rodes, rosed, sarod, sated, sored, stade, stead, sudor, tardo, tared, tased, toads, toted, trade, trads, tread, trode, trued, tsade, turds, and uredo — 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 outtrades produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, ours, rate, rats, read, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are ados, odas, odea, odes, orad, ouds, rads, read, redo, reds, road, rode, rods, rude, rued, sade, sard, soda, sord, stud, sued, dare, dart, date, dato, daut, dear, doat, doer, does, dore, dors, dosa, dose, dost, dote, dots, dour, dout, drat, dues, duet, duos, dura, dure, duro, dust, surd, tads, teds, toad, tods, toed, trad, 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 outtrades turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, dot, due, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, das, doe, dor, dos, dot, due, duo, eds, oda, ode, ods, oud, rad, red, rod, sad, sod, tad, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outtrades. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in outtrades plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outtrades 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.
outtrades 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.
outtrades is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outtrades unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outstared and outtrades, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outtrades 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 outtrades produce 524 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.