Hidden inside outraged sit outraged and ragouted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outraged and ragouted tie for the highest Scrabble score from outraged at 10 points. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outraged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outraged itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outraged and ragouted, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outraged produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outrage. For points, the strongest plays are garoted, grouted, and outdrag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outraged turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argued. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including argued, dogear and dotage.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outraged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, argue and grade. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including grade, guard and agued.
Rearranging the letters in outraged produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, auto and dare. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and drug.
Unscrambling outraged turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and are. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including dog, dug and god.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outraged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and do. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in outraged plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outraged 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.
outraged 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 one sense for outraged. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
outraged is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outraged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outraged and ragouted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outraged 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 outraged produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.