Aviates is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 156 anagrams from letters in aviates (aaeistv).
First recorded in 1885-90; back formation from aviation
It is not quite clear in my mind even now why things in my immediate vicinity did not start to aviate.
But in the same sense there is an impulse to aviate, to run a typewriter or write stories for magazines.
"Now the next thing is for you to teach us all to aviate," laughed the southerner.