Hidden inside pullout sit outpull and pullout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TOPLULU, UPTOULL or PLUTOLU and you get the same 7 letters as PULLOUT: so the words from PULLOUT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
outpull and pullout tie for the highest Scrabble score from pullout at 9 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in pullout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pullout itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outpull and pullout, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pullout. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pluot and poult, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pullout produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plot, pull, and toll. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including plot, pull and loup.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pullout plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pullout 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.
pullout 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 5-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 pullout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pullout is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pullout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outpull and pullout, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pullout 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 pullout produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.