Hidden inside avulse sit avulse and values, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avulse and values tie for the highest Scrabble score from avulse at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in avulse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and avulse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with values. For points, the strongest plays are avulse and values — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avulse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slave, value, and veals. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including slave, value and veals.
Rearranging the letters in avulse produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sale, save and seal. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including save, vase and veal.
Unscrambling avulse turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea, sue, and use. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including ave, lav and lev.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in avulse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in avulse and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
avulse 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 avulse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
avulse is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avulse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are avulse and values, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from avulse 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 avulse produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.