Hidden inside autocrats sit actuators and autocrats, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actuators and autocrats tie for the highest Scrabble score from autocrats at 11 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in autocrats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and autocrats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actuators and autocrats, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autocrats. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actuator, autocrat, castrato, and crostata, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in autocrats produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cottars, cuatros, ostraca, outacts, outcast, surcoat, and turacos, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling autocrats turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, courts, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are acarus, actors, carats, castor, costar, cottar, cottas, courts, cuatro, outact, scrota, soucar, tarocs, tracts, and turaco — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autocrats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, autos, carts, coast, coats, court, and roast. For points, the strongest plays are acros, actor, arcus, ascot, carat, carts, coast, coats, costa, cotta, court, crust, curst, orcas, oscar, sacra, scart, scatt, scaur, scour, scout, scuta, tacos, tacts, taroc, torcs, and tract — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in autocrats produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, auto, cars, cart, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are acro, acta, acts, arco, arcs, cars, cart, casa, cast, cats, coat, cors, cost, cots, crus, curs, curt, cuts, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, scar, scat, scot, scut, soca, taco, tact, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling autocrats turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art, car, cat, cut, our, and out. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, car, cat, cor, cos, cot, cru, cur, cut, oca, orc, roc, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in autocrats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, to, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in autocrats 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.
autocrats 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 2-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 autocrats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
autocrats is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing autocrats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actuators and autocrats, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from autocrats 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 autocrats produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.