avoidances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 472 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avoidances is the highest-scoring word from avoidances, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 472 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in avoidances — and it is avoidances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avoidances turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avoidance and voidances, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoidances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are advances, canvased, and voidance, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in avoidances produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies and invades. For points, the strongest plays are advance, advices, 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 avoidances turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advice, advise, avoids, casino, coined, dances, and invade. For points, the strongest plays are advice, covids, 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 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoidances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aside, avoid, caves, codes, coins, and cones. 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 avoidances produces 143 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids, cans, case, cave, code, and coin. For points, the strongest plays are cava, cave, cove, vacs, 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 avoidances turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, can, con, die, and end. 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoidances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, id, in, and is. 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.
avoidances 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 avoidances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
avoidances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avoidances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avoidances, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from avoidances 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 avoidances produce 472 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 143 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.