Hidden inside route sit outer, outre, and route, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 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.
outer, outre, and route tie for the highest Scrabble score from route at 5 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in route: two come from rearranging its letters, and route itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer and route. For points, the strongest plays are outer, outre, and route — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
22 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in route plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in route and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
route 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for route. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
route is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing route unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outer, outre, and route, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from route 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 route produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.