Hidden inside evading sit deaving and evading, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deaving and evading tie for the highest Scrabble score from evading at 12 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in evading: one comes from rearranging its letters, and evading 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 deaving and evading, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in evading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, naive, and vegan. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including given, vegan and daven.
Rearranging the letters in evading produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dine and dive. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including dive, gave and give.
Unscrambling evading turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and and. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, vid, and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in evading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in evading plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in evading 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.
evading 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.
evading is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing evading unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deaving and evading, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from evading 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 evading produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.