Hidden inside ancestries sit ancestries and resistance, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 920 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ancestries and resistance tie for the highest Scrabble score from ancestries at 12 points. The top 10 of 920 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in ancestries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ancestries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ancestries and resistance, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ancestries turns up 20 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increases and sincerest. For points, 15 words tie at 11 points, including increases, sincerest and canisters.
There are 49 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancestries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with increase and scariest. For points, 32 words tie at 10 points, including increase, scariest and arcsines.
Rearranging the letters in ancestries produces 135 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, centers and certain. For points, 75 words tie at 9 points, including actress, centers and certain.
Unscrambling ancestries turns up 221 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, ceases and center. For points, 103 words tie at 8 points, including caters, ceases and center.
There are 232 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancestries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner and scare. For points, 82 words tie at 7 points, including scare, scars and scene.
Rearranging the letters in ancestries produces 161 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including acts, nice and race.
Unscrambling ancestries turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ancestries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
7 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ancestries plus one additional letter.
ancestries 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 two senses for ancestries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ancestries is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ancestries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ancestries and resistance, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ancestries 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 ancestries produce 920 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 20 nine-letter words, 49 eight-letter words, 135 seven-letter words, 221 six-letter words, 232 five-letter words, 161 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.