Unscramble OUTNAMES and you have 251 words, OUTNAMES itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. OUTNAMES has 2 anagrams here, NOTAEUMS and SEAMOUNT, scoring 10 like OUTNAMES itself. The best shorter words score 9: 10 of them, AMOUNTS, AUTOMEN and MANTOES included. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from OUTNAMES by length: 3 with 8 letters, 11 with 7, 25 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 32 with 2.
Of the 25 6-letter words you get when you unscramble OUTNAMES, 20 score 8 points, the group's best. AMOUNT and MOUNTS are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words from OUTNAMES scores 7. MEANS, NAMES and MOUNT are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 4-letter words from OUTNAMES score 6 points. NAME, MOST and MUST are the ones most people know.
60 3-letter words in OUTNAMES; 36 of them share the top score of 5. NOT, MAN and MEN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of OUTNAMES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OU · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 6 highest-scoring answers, starting with SEAMOUNT (10 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts OUTNAMES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OUTNAMES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 251) | 191 | 251 | 175 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
60 of the 251 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NOTAEUMS, OUTNAMES, MANTOES, MOUTANS, NOTAEUM, OUTNAME, UNSMOTE, UNTAMES, UNTEAMS, MANOES, MANTOS, MOUTAN and 48 more. 16 of the 251 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MENTOS, MENTO, SOMAN, EMOS, MUSO, OMAS, TAUONS, EMO, MES, OMA, SOM, TUM and 4 more.
These 6 words take every letter of OUTNAMES plus a single extra one.