AVIATE is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. AVIATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept AVIATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AVIATE is to know. It scores 9 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AVIATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How AVIATE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in AVIATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,550.
What does AVIATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
formal
To fly an aircraft, or to travel by air.
It is a back-formation from aviation, which itself comes from the Latin word for bird. Pilots rarely use it in speech; they simply say they fly, so the verb tends to appear in formal prose, older writing about early flight, or deliberately grand wording. It is the root of the more familiar aviator, and the two share the idea of controlling a craft in the air. The word also sits in the old pilot saying about priorities in an emergency: aviate, navigate, communicate.
How AVIATE is used
Uncommon as a verb; the noun aviator and the noun aviation are far more frequent.
- She trained for two years before she could aviate alone.
- Early pilots had to aviate with little more than a compass and nerve.
- The instructor told the cadets to aviate first and worry about the radio later.
- He dreamed of the day he would aviate across the ocean.
- It takes steady hands to aviate a small plane in a crosswind.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AVIATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with AVIATE
2 longer words begin with AVIATE.
Shorter words from the letters in AVIATE
Common questions about AVIATE
- Is AVIATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts AVIATE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is AVIATE worth?
- AVIATE is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AVIATE mean?
- To fly an aircraft, or to travel by air.
- What letters can be added to AVIATE?
- AVIATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of AVIATE:
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