Hidden inside averting sit averting, grievant, and vintager, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
averting, grievant, and vintager tie for the highest Scrabble score from averting at 12 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in averting: two come from rearranging its letters, and averting 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 averting, grievant, and vintager, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in averting produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest plays are reaving, vinegar, vintage, and virgate — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling averting turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, naiver, native, rating, and tavern. For points, the strongest plays are graven, grivet, raving, rivage, and virgae — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in averting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, giant, given, grant, grave, and great. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, given, giver, grave, vegan, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in averting produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, gave, give, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling averting turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in averting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 averting 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.
averting 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 two senses for averting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
averting is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing averting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are averting, grievant, and vintager, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from averting 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 averting produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.