Hidden inside outsells sit outsells and sellouts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outsells and sellouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outsells at 8 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outsells: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outsells 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 outsells and sellouts, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outsells 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 lotuses, outsell, sellout and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outsells turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louses. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including louses, losels and ousels.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outsells. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, louse and sells. For points, 30 words tie at 5 points, including loses, louse and sells.
Rearranging the letters in outsells produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets and lose. For points, 41 words tie at 4 points, including less, lets and lose.
Unscrambling outsells turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot and out. For points, 25 words tie at 3 points, including let, lot and out.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outsells plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outsells 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.
outsells 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 two senses for outsells. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
outsells is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outsells unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outsells and sellouts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outsells 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 outsells produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.