Hidden inside washout sit outwash and washout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outwash and washout tie for the highest Scrabble score from washout at 13 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in washout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and washout 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 outwash and washout, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling washout 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 word is whatso, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, oaths, shout, and south. For points, the strongest plays are swath, thaws, and whats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in washout produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, hats, host, oath, shot, show, and shut. For points, the strongest plays are haws, hows, shaw, show, shwa, thaw, wash, what, and whoa — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling washout turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, hat, hot, how, out, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, aw, ha, ho, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, ho, oh, ow, sh, uh, and wo — each worth 5 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 washout 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.
washout 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in washout carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for washout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
washout is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing washout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwash and washout, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from washout 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 washout produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.