Hidden inside avengers sit avengers and engraves, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avengers and engraves tie for the highest Scrabble score from avengers at 12 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in avengers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and avengers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avengers and engraves, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in avengers produces 6 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 avenger, avenges, engrave and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avengers turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, angers and graves. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including graves, vegans and avenge.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avengers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger and earns. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including grave, vegan and ganev.
Rearranging the letters in avengers produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, earn and ears. For points, the strongest plays are gave, vang, and vega — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avengers turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and ear. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in avengers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in avengers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
avengers 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 one sense for avengers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
avengers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avengers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avengers and engraves, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from avengers 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 avengers produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.