Hidden inside outwalks sit outwalks and walkouts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outwalks and walkouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outwalks at 15 points. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outwalks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outwalks 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 outwalks and walkouts, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outwalks produces 3 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 outwalk and walkout, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outwalks turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are otakus, outask, skatol, and taluks, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outwalks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, talks, and walks. For points, the strongest plays are walks and wauks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outwalks produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, auto, last, laws, lost, lots, and owls. For points, the strongest plays are walk, wauk, and woks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outwalks turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, law, lot, low, out, owl, and sat. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outwalks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, aw, ok, ow, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 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 outwalks 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.
outwalks 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
outwalks is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outwalks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwalks and walkouts, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outwalks 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 outwalks produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.