Hidden inside takeout sit outtake and takeout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outtake and takeout tie for the highest Scrabble score from takeout at 11 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in takeout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and takeout 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 outtake and takeout, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling takeout turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outate and outeat, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takeout. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is otaku, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in takeout produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto and take. For points, the strongest plays are keta, keto, take, teak, and toke — 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 takeout turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, out, tea, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are auk, kae, kat, kea, koa, kue, oak, oka, oke, and uke — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takeout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ok, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 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 takeout 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.
takeout 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 three senses for takeout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
takeout is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takeout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outtake and takeout, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from takeout 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 takeout produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.