Hidden inside outwards sit outdraws and outwards, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outdraws and outwards tie for the highest Scrabble score from outwards at 12 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outwards: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outwards 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 outdraws and outwards, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outwards produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with towards. For points, the strongest plays are outdraw, outward, and towards — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, draws and roads. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including draws, sword and words.
Rearranging the letters in outwards produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and dots. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including draw, word and daws.
Unscrambling outwards turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, art and dot. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, wad, and wud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outwards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in outwards plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outwards 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.
outwards 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 one sense for outwards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
outwards is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outwards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outdraws and outwards, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outwards 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 outwards produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.