autochthon needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
autochthon is the highest-scoring word from autochthon, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in autochthon — and it is autochthon itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling autochthon produces exactly one eight-letter word: nuthatch. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling autochthon turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cotton. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including ahchoo, haunch and honcho.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autochthon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, haunt and nacho. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including hatch, hooch and hotch.
Rearranging the letters in autochthon produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and chat. For points, the strongest plays are hath and hunh — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling autochthon turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, the strongest plays are hah and huh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autochthon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and ho.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in autochthon plus one additional letter.
autochthon 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 autochthon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
autochthon is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing autochthon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is autochthon, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from autochthon 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 autochthon produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.