avulsions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
avulsions is the highest-scoring word from avulsions, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in avulsions — and it is avulsions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avulsions produces exactly one eight-letter word: avulsion. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in avulsions produces 5 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 silvans and visuals, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling avulsions turns up 18 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anvils, avions, avisos and 8 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avulsions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, loans and nails. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including anvil, avion and aviso.
Rearranging the letters in avulsions produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, anus and lion. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including vans, avos and lavs.
Unscrambling avulsions turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, oil and sin. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including van, avo and lav.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in avulsions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
Swap a single tile in avulsions 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.
avulsions 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 4-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 avulsions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
avulsions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing avulsions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is avulsions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from avulsions 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 avulsions produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.