Hidden inside redouts sit detours, dourest, redouts and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detours, dourest, redouts and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from redouts at 8 points. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in redouts: three come from rearranging its letters, and redouts 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 detours, dourest, redouts, and rousted, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redouts turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with routes, rudest, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are detour, doters, douser, duster, ousted, redout, roused, routed, rudest, rusted, sorted, soured, stored, strode, stroud, toured, toused, and uredos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer, route, store, and tours. For points, the strongest plays are doers, doest, dores, doser, doter, dotes, douse, douts, drest, druse, duets, dures, duros, durst, outed, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, sored, sudor, trode, trued, turds, and uredo — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in redouts produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, dust, ours, rest, rode, and rods. For points, the strongest plays are doer, does, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, dour, dout, dues, duet, duos, dure, duro, dust, odes, ouds, redo, reds, rode, rods, rude, rued, sord, stud, sued, surd, teds, tods, toed, trod, turd, udos, urds, and used — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redouts turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due, our, out, red, rod, and set. For points, the strongest plays are doe, dor, dos, dot, due, duo, eds, ode, ods, oud, red, rod, sod, ted, tod, udo, and urd — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in redouts 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.
redouts 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.
redouts is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detours, dourest, redouts, and rousted, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redouts 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 redouts produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.