avows needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avows is the highest-scoring word from avows, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in avows — and it is avows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ow, and so. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in avows and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
avows 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for avows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
avows is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avows, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from avows 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 avows produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.