auriferous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 250 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
auriferous is the highest-scoring word from auriferous, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 250 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in auriferous — and it is auriferous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in auriferous produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with furious. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including furious, ferrous and friseur.
Unscrambling auriferous turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairer and sourer. For points, 14 words tie at 9 points, including fairer, farers and farros.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auriferous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fears, fires and fours. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including fears, fires and fours.
Rearranging the letters in auriferous produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ears and eras. For points, 28 words tie at 7 points, including fair, fear and fire.
Unscrambling auriferous turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and ear. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including far, for and fur.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auriferous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, if and is. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including if, of and ef.
auriferous 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 auriferous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
auriferous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing auriferous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is auriferous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from auriferous 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 auriferous produce 250 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.