auxiliary needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
auxiliary is the highest-scoring word from auxiliary, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in auxiliary — and it is auxiliary itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling auxiliary produces exactly one six-letter word: airily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auxiliary. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is axial, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in auxiliary produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liar. For points, the strongest plays are axal, axil, and ixia — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling auxiliary turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air and lay. For points, the strongest plays are lax, lux, and rax — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auxiliary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. For points, the strongest plays are ax, xi, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
auxiliary 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 three senses for auxiliary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
auxiliary is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing auxiliary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is auxiliary, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from auxiliary 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 auxiliary produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.