Hidden inside authored sit authored and outheard, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authored and outheard tie for the highest Scrabble score from authored at 12 points. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in authored: one comes from rearranging its letters, and authored itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are authored and outheard, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in authored produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is outhear, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authored turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including dearth, dehort and dourah.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, death and earth. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including death, hated and heard.
Rearranging the letters in authored produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, dare and date. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including hard, head and ahed.
Unscrambling authored turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including duh, had and dah.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authored. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
Swap a single tile in authored and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
authored 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in authored carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
authored is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authored unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are authored and outheard, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from authored 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 authored produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.