authors needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
authors is the highest-scoring word from authors, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in authors — and it is authors itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling authors turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with author. For points, the strongest plays are author, rouths, and torahs — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, hours, hurts, oaths, roast, short, and shout. For points, the strongest plays are harts, hoars, horas, horst, hosta, hours, hurst, hurts, oaths, routh, ruths, shart, shoat, short, shout, shura, south, surah, tahrs, thous, torah, and trash — 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 authors produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto, hats, host, hour, hurt, and oath. For points, the strongest plays are haos, hart, hast, hats, haut, hoar, hora, host, hots, hour, hurt, huts, oath, rash, rath, rhos, rhus, rush, ruth, shat, shot, shut, soth, tahr, thou, thro, thru, thus, tosh, and tush — 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 authors turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ash, has, hat, hot, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hao, has, hat, hos, hot, hut, ohs, rah, rho, sha, sho, soh, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in authors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, oh, sh, 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 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in authors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in authors and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
authors 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 authors carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
authors is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing authors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is authors, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from authors 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 authors produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.