OUTTELLS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. OUTTELLS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept OUTTELLS?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful OUTTELLS is to know. It scores 8 from 8 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for OUTTELLS
No single letter turns OUTTELLS into another word.
How OUTTELLS scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in OUTTELLS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so OUTTELLS has to be built on the board across turns.
What does OUTTELLS mean in Scrabble?
verb
To tell something better or at greater length than another does — the form used after he, she or it.
Outtell belongs to a large family of verbs made by putting out in front of another one, and most of that family is coined as needed rather than learned: outsing, outwrite, outstay. The pattern is productive enough that outtells reads as ordinary English even to somebody meeting it for the first time.
How OUTTELLS is used
Third-person singular of outtell. Rare in itself, but built on a very common pattern.
- He outtells everybody at the table and knows it.
- A good witness outtells a clever one every time.
- Nobody outtells her once she has an audience.
- The book outtells the film in every particular.
- Whoever outtells the other gets the last word.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of OUTTELLS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in OUTTELLS
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Common questions about OUTTELLS
- Is OUTTELLS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts OUTTELLS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is OUTTELLS worth?
- OUTTELLS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does OUTTELLS mean?
- To tell something better or at greater length than another does — the form used after he, she or it.
- What letters can be added to OUTTELLS?
- No single letter can be added to OUTTELLS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of OUTTELLS:
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