authority needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authority is the highest-scoring word from authority, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in authority — and it is authority itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authority produces exactly one seven-letter word: throaty. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authority turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author, thirty, and throat. For points, the strongest play is thirty — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authority. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairy, truth, and youth. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including hairy, youth and hoary.
Rearranging the letters in authority produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, auto and hair. For points, the strongest plays are ahoy, hiya, and hoya — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authority turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and hat. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hoy, thy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authority. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and ay. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and ha.
Swap a single tile in authority 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.
authority 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 seven senses for authority. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
authority is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authority unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is authority, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from authority 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 authority produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.