Hidden inside avoider sit avodire and avoider, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avodire and avoider tie for the highest Scrabble score from avoider at 11 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in avoider: one comes from rearranging its letters, and avoider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avodire and avoider, 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 avoider turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are devoir, varied, and voider, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avoider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, avoid, drive, drove, radio, and video. For points, the strongest plays are avoid, diver, drave, drive, drove, raved, rived, roved, and video — 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 avoider produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, dive, dove, idea, over, and read. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, diva, dive, dove, vide, vied, 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 avoider turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, die, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 avoider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, do, id, and or. 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.
Swap a single tile in avoider and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
avoider 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
avoider is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avoider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avodire and avoider, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from avoider 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 avoider produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.