authorizes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 597 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authorizes is the highest-scoring word from authorizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 597 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in authorizes — and it is authorizes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authorizes turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is authorize, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authorizes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is azurites, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in authorizes produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with authors. For points, the strongest plays are haziest, shiatzu, and zithers — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authorizes turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author, hearts and others. For points, 6 words tie at 18 points, including azoths, hazers and hazier.
There are 170 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authorizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, earth and hairs. For points, the strongest plays are azoth, hazer, hazes, and hertz — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in authorizes produces 187 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and auto. For points, the strongest play is haze — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authorizes turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including azo, rez and sez.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authorizes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in authorizes plus one additional letter.
authorizes 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 authorizes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for authorizes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
authorizes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authorizes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is authorizes, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from authorizes 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 authorizes produce 597 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 170 five-letter words, 187 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.