avoiding needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avoiding is the highest-scoring word from avoiding, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in avoiding — and it is avoiding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in avoiding produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is voiding, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling avoiding turns up 5 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: diving, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoiding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avoid and doing. For points, the strongest plays are avoid, divan, viand, and vigia — 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 avoiding produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain. For points, the strongest plays are avid, diva, vagi, vang, viga, and void — 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 avoiding turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aid, and, dig, dog, god, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are vid, vig, and vog — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoiding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, do, go, id, in, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, do, gi, go, id, and od — 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 avoiding 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.
avoiding 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.
avoiding is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avoiding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avoiding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from avoiding 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 avoiding produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.