Hidden inside pullouts sit outpulls and pullouts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outpulls and pullouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from pullouts at 10 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pullouts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pullouts 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 outpulls and pullouts, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pullouts produces 2 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 outpull and pullout, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pullouts turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lupous, pluots, and poults, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pullouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plots, pulls, and tolls. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including plots, pulls and loups.
Rearranging the letters in pullouts produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lost, lots and plot. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including plot, plus and post.
Unscrambling pullouts turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lot, out and pot. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including pot, put and top.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pullouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in pullouts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pullouts 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.
pullouts 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 pullouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
pullouts is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pullouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outpulls and pullouts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pullouts 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 pullouts produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.