advance needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EDAVCNA, VCANADE or VACDEAN and you get the same 7 letters as ADVANCE: so the words from ADVANCE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
advance is the highest-scoring word from advance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in advance — and it is advance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dance. For points, the strongest play is caved — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in advance produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave. For points, the strongest plays are cava and cave — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling advance turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, can, end, and van. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in advance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in advance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in advance 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.
advance 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty senses for advance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
advance is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing advance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is advance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from advance 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 advance produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.