Hidden inside stou sit oust and outs, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
STOU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OUST and OUTS.
oust and outs tie for the highest Scrabble score from stou at 4 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in stou produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oust and outs, each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
30 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in stou plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stou and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oust and outs, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stou 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 stou produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.