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Is avoid a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word avoid is a Scrabble US word. The word avoid is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is avoid a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word avoid is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

AVOID,

4-letter words (4 found)

AVID,DIVA,DIVO,VOID,

3-letter words (8 found)

ADO,AID,AVO,DIV,ODA,OVA,VIA,VID,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AI,DA,DI,DO,ID,IO,OD,OI,

You can make 22 words from avoid according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of avoid

avoid vaoid aovid oavid voaid ovaid aviod vaiod aivod iavod viaod ivaod aoivd oaivd aiovd iaovd oiavd ioavd voiad oviad vioad ivoad oivad iovad avodi vaodi aovdi oavdi voadi ovadi avdoi vadoi advoi davoi vdaoi dvaoi aodvi oadvi adovi daovi odavi doavi vodai ovdai vdoai dvoai odvai dovai avido vaido aivdo iavdo viado ivado avdio vadio advio davio vdaio dvaio aidvo iadvo adivo daivo idavo diavo vidao ivdao vdiao dviao idvao divao aoidv oaidv aiodv iaodv oiadv ioadv aodiv oadiv adoiv daoiv odaiv doaiv aidov iadov adiov daiov idaov diaov oidav iodav odiav doiav idoav dioav voida ovida vioda ivoda oivda iovda vodia ovdia vdoia dvoia odvia dovia vidoa ivdoa vdioa dvioa idvoa divoa oidva iodva odiva doiva idova diova

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Definitions and meaning of avoid

avoid

Etymology

From Middle English avoiden, from Anglo-Norman avoider, Old French esvuidier (“to empty out”), from es- + vuidier, from Vulgar Latin *vocitāre < Late Latin vocitus < vocivus, ultimately related to Latin vacuus. Displaced native Old English forbūgan (literally “to bend away from”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈvɔɪd/
  • Hyphenation: a‧void
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Verb

avoid (third-person singular simple present avoids, present participle avoiding, simple past and past participle avoided)

  1. (transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun
  2. (transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).
    I avoided the slap easily.
    One town was flooded from the storm, while the other town avoided the storm.
  3. to keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from
    I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
    • 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 13,[1]
      What need a man forestall his date of griefe
      And run to meet what he would most avoid?
  4. To try not to do something or to have something happen
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
    • c. 1395,, Wycliffe Bible, Ecclesiasticus 13:6:
      If thou haue, he shal lyue with thee, and auoide thee out ; and he shal not sorewen vpon thee.
  6. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland, Dublin: John Morrisson, 1809, reprint of the 1633 edition, p. 233,[4]
      […] how can those graunts of the Kings be avoyded, without wronging of those lords, which had those lands and lordships given them?
  7. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
    • 1577, Richard Eden (translator), The History of Trauayle in the West and East Indies [De Orbo Novo, Decades 1-3] by Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, London, “Of the ordinary nauigation from Spayne to the west Indies,” p. 224b,[5]
      […] the citie of Memi, where is a great Caue or Denne, in the whiche is a spryng or fountayne that contynually auoydeth a great quantitie of Bitumen […]
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
    • 1565, Thomas Stapleton (translator), The History of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman, Antwerp, Book 5, Chapter 20, pp. 178b-179,[6]
      […] the bishop commaunded al to auoide the chambre for an houre, and beganne to talke after this manner to his chaplin […]
  10. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
  12. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

Usage notes

  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

  • (to keep away from): See Thesaurus:avoid

Derived terms

  • avoid like the plague
  • avoidable
  • avoidance
  • avoider

Translations

Further reading

  • “avoid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org