authorial 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, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authorial is the highest-scoring word from authorial, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in authorial — and it is authorial itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authorial produces exactly one seven-letter word: urolith. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authorial turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author and ritual. For points, the strongest plays are author, harlot, hartal, hiatal, liroth, thoria, and thulia — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authorial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altar, altho, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are airth, aloha, altho, arhat, hilar, horal, houri, lahar, laith, lathi, litho, loath, lotah, routh, thali, thiol, thirl, thurl, and torah — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in authorial produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, hail, hair, hour, hurt, liar, and oath. For points, the strongest plays are haar, hail, hair, halo, halt, harl, hart, haul, haut, hila, hilt, hoar, holt, hora, hour, hula, hurl, hurt, lath, loth, oath, ohia, rath, ruth, tahr, thio, thir, thou, thro, and thru — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling authorial turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, aha, air, art, hat, hit, and hot. For points, the strongest plays are aah, aha, ahi, hao, hat, hit, hot, hut, lah, rah, rho, and tho — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authorial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, ha, hi, ho, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, hi, ho, oh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in authorial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in authorial 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.
authorial 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 1-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 authorial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
authorial is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authorial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is authorial, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from authorial 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 authorial produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 15 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.