outcross needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outcross is the highest-scoring word from outcross, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in outcross — and it is outcross itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outcross turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courts and scouts. For points, the strongest plays are courts, crusts, custos, scoots, scours, and scouts — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcross. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costs, court, cross, roots, scout, sorts, and tours. For points, the strongest plays are coots, costs, court, cross, crust, curst, cusso, scoot, scots, scour, scout, scuts, tocos, and torcs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outcross produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, cuts, ours, root, sort, sour, and toss. For points, the strongest plays are coos, coot, cors, coss, cost, cots, crus, curs, curt, cuss, cuts, orcs, rocs, scot, scut, toco, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling outcross turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cut, our, out, and too. For points, the strongest plays are coo, cor, cos, cot, cru, cur, cut, orc, roc, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outcross. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are or, os, so, 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 outcross and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
outcross 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.
outcross is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outcross unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is outcross, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from outcross 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 outcross produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.