outweigh needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outweigh is the highest-scoring word from outweigh, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outweigh — and it is outweigh itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outweigh produces exactly one seven-letter word: toughie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outweigh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, ought and tough. For points, the strongest plays are weigh and wight — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outweigh produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with huge, thou, and with. For points, the strongest play is whig — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outweigh turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outweigh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and go. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in outweigh plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outweigh 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.
outweigh 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 outweigh. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
outweigh is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outweigh unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outweigh, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outweigh 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 outweigh produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.