How many points in Scrabble is author worth? author how many points in Words With Friends? What does author mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is author a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word author is a Scrabble US word. The word author is worth 9 points in Scrabble:
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Is author a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word author is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:
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Is author a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word author is a Words With Friends word. The word author is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 66 words from author according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.
author (plural authors)
author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)
Late variant of auctor and author under influence of descendants such as English author.
author m (genitive authōris); third declension
Third-declension noun.
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