Hidden inside outdraw sit outdraw and outward, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outdraw and outward tie for the highest Scrabble score from outdraw at 11 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outdraw: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outdraw 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 outdraw and outward, 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 outdraw turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: toward, worth 10 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 outdraw. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doura and tardo, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in outdraw produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, draw, road, toad, tour, and word. For points, the strongest plays are dawt, draw, ward, woad, and word — 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 outdraw turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, dot, our, out, rat, raw, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dow, wad, and wud — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outdraw. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, aw, do, or, ow, and to. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, 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 outdraw 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.
outdraw 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 one sense for outdraw. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
outdraw is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outdraw unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outdraw and outward, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outdraw 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 outdraw produce 94 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, 33 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.