authoress needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 512 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authoress is the highest-scoring word from authoress, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 512 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in authoress — and it is authoress itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authoress. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earshots, hoarsest, housesat and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in authoress produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with authors, sourest, and trashes. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including authors, trashes and earshot.
Unscrambling authoress turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, author and hearts. For points, 45 words tie at 9 points, including author, hearts and horses.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authoress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roses and route. For points, 61 words tie at 8 points, including share, shoes and short.
Rearranging the letters in authoress produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and oath. For points, 56 words tie at 7 points, including oath, rash and rush.
Unscrambling authoress turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ash. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authoress. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in authoress plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in authoress and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
authoress 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 authoress carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for authoress. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
authoress is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authoress unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is authoress, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from authoress 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 authoress produce 512 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.