Hidden inside taou sit auto and outa, 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.
TAOU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to AUTO and OUTA.
auto and outa tie for the highest Scrabble score from taou at 4 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in taou produces 2 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto. For points, the strongest plays are auto and outa — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in taou 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 auto and outa, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from taou 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 taou produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.