Hidden inside outwith sit outwith and without, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outwith and without tie for the highest Scrabble score from outwith at 13 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outwith: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outwith itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with without. For points, the strongest plays are outwith and without — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outwith produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with thou and with. For points, the strongest plays are whit and with — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outwith turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit, hot and how. For points, the strongest plays are how and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outwith plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outwith and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
outwith is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
outwith is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outwith unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwith and without, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outwith 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 outwith produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.