Hidden inside outturns sit outturns and turnouts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outturns and turnouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outturns at 8 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outturns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outturns 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 outturns and turnouts, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outturns produces 5 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 outruns, outturn, runouts and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outturns turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outrun, runout, strunt and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outturns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stunt, tours, trust, and turns. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including stunt, tours and trust.
Rearranging the letters in outturns produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuts, ours and runs. For points, 36 words tie at 4 points, including nuts, ours and runs.
Unscrambling outturns turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, not and nut. For points, 25 words tie at 3 points, including nor, not and nut.
Swap a single tile in outturns 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.
outturns 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for outturns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
outturns is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outturns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outturns and turnouts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outturns 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 outturns produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.