Unscramble LOUTS to get 32 words. LOUTS itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: LOTUS and TOLUS. The best shorter words score 4: 12 of them, LOST, LOTS and SOUL included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
L12O1U12T1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LOUTS by length: 3 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 9 with 3 and 8 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of LOUTS, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with LO · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
What LOUTS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LOUTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 32) | 25 | 32 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: LOUS, SOUT, LOS, LOU, OUS, OU and ST.
These 12 words take every letter of LOUTS plus a single extra one.