OUTBACK is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. OUTBACK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUTBACK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUTBACK is to know. It scores 15 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTBACK
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
outbacksChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How OUTBACK scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in OUTBACK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,316 thousand.
What does OUTBACK mean in Scrabble?
noun
Australian
The remote, thinly populated inland country of Australia.
The outback suggests red earth, long roads and sheep stations far from any large town. People outside Australia sometimes stretch the word to any wild distant region, but the original home of the term is Australian.
How OUTBACK is used
Outback is used for the Australian interior, and also loosely for any remote countryside.
- They drove for two days across the outback without seeing a town.
- Mail reached the outback stations by small plane.
- Her novel is set in the heat of the outback.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTBACK and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of OUTBACK
The 7 tiles of OUTBACK in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with OUTBACK
3 longer words begin with OUTBACK.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTBACK
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Common questions about OUTBACK
- Is OUTBACK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTBACK, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTBACK worth?
- OUTBACK is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTBACK mean?
- The remote, thinly populated inland country of Australia.
- What letters can be added to OUTBACK?
- OUTBACK takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of OUTBACK:
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