Hidden inside outlets sit letouts and outlets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
letouts and outlets tie for the highest Scrabble score from outlets at 7 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outlets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outlets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outlets. For points, the strongest plays are letouts and outlets — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlets turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outlet. For points, the strongest plays are letout, lottes, outlet, outset, setout, solute, and tousle — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louse and stole. For points, the strongest plays are lotte, lotus, louse, louts, lutes, ousel, stole, stout, telos, toles, tolts, tolus, totes, touse, touts, and tules — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outlets produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose, lost, lots, slot, soul, and test. For points, the strongest plays are lest, lets, lose, lost, lots, lout, lues, lust, lute, oles, oust, outs, sett, sloe, slot, slue, slut, sole, soul, stet, stot, suet, tels, test, tets, toes, tole, tolt, tolu, tost, tote, tots, tout, tule, tuts, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outlets turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, out, set, sue, toe, and use. For points, the strongest plays are els, est, let, leu, lot, oes, ole, ose, out, sel, set, sol, sot, sou, sue, tel, tes, tet, toe, tot, tut, use, ute, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, lo, oe, os, so, te, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 outlets 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.
outlets 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for outlets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
outlets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outlets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are letouts and outlets, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outlets 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 outlets produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.