avoidance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avoidance is the highest-scoring word from avoidance, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in avoidance — and it is avoidance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avoidance produces exactly one eight-letter word: voidance. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in avoidance produces 4 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 advance and vanadic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling avoidance turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advice, coined, and invade. For points, the strongest plays are advice and voiced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoidance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avoid, dance, naive, ocean, video, and voice. For points, the strongest plays are caved, coved, covid, and viced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in avoidance produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, cave, code, coin, cone, dice, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, cove, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling avoidance turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, can, con, die, end, and ice. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoidance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, do, id, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in avoidance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in avoidance and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
avoidance 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 avoidance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
avoidance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avoidance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avoidance, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from avoidance 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 avoidance produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.