average needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
average is the highest-scoring word from average, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in average — and it is average itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling average turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are greave, ravage, and regave, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in average. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree and grave. For points, the strongest plays are agave, grave, and verge — 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 average produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, ever, gave, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are gave and vega — 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 average turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, eve, gee, and rag. For points, the strongest play is veg — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in average. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ag, 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 average 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.
average 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twelve senses for average. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
average is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing average unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is average, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from average 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 average produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.