113 words come out when you unscramble VANGUARD, starting with VANGUARD itself: 13 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. AVRUGA is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for grandvau, drugvana, grandavu, avangurd, rangdavu, vandruga, draguvan, grandauv, vanduarg or grundaav? They use the same letters as VANGUARD, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from VANGUARD by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 6, 18 with 5, 41 with 4, 37 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among the 4-letter words from VANGUARD, GRAV and VANG tie for first at 8 points. DRUG, DRAG and GRAD are everyday picks.
These 3 words have the length of VANGUARD, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with VA · ending in RD · all 8-letter words
What VANGUARD means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept VANGUARD, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANGUARD itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 113) | 78 | 113 | 70 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
35 of the 113 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AVRUGA, ARGAND, DURGAN, GARUDA, GRAV, VARAN, DARGA, GRUND, URVA, VAG, AGUNA, ARGAN and 23 more. 8 of the 113 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DURAG, GARDA, NAV, ANURA, NAGA, DAN, NUG and DA.
Each word below uses all the letters of VANGUARD and one more.