Hidden inside ascertain sit ascertain, craniates, and sectarian, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 580 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ascertain, craniates, and sectarian tie for the highest Scrabble score from ascertain at 11 points. The top 10 of 580 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in ascertain: two come from rearranging its letters, and ascertain itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascertain, craniates, and sectarian, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ascertain. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acarines, canaries, canister, carinate, carnitas, caterans, ceratins, cesarian, cisterna, craniate, creatins, estancia, sarcinae, scantier, and tacrines, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ascertain produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain and nastier. For points, the strongest plays are acarine, acetins, acrasin, anticar, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, atresic, canters, carates, carinae, carinas, caritas, carnets, carnies, catenas, cateran, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, creatin, cretins, cristae, narcist, nectars, raciest, recants, sarcina, satanic, scanter, stearic, tacrine, tanrecs, and trances — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ascertain turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, nicest, racist, reacts, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, acinar, actins, antics, arcane, arecas, arnica, ascent, caesar, cairns, caners, canter, carate, carats, carets, caries, carina, carnet, carnie, cartes, casein, casern, casita, caster, catena, caters, centai, centas, centra, cerias, citers, cranes, crania, crates, cretin, crista, enacts, enatic, ericas, incase, incest, insect, nacres, nastic, nectar, nicest, racist, rances, reacts, recant, recast, recits, sancta, secant, stance, steric, tacans, tanrec, traces, trance, triacs, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 166 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ascertain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with areas, cares, carts, cater, cents, cries, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are acais, acari, aceta, acnes, acres, actin, aecia, antic, areca, areic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, canst, cants, carat, cares, caret, carns, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cents, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cines, cires, citer, cites, crane, crate, crest, crias, cries, crits, enact, erica, escar, etics, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, races, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, rices, sacra, saice, scant, scare, scart, scena, scent, scran, serac, since, tacan, taces, trace, triac, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ascertain produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, area, arts, cans, and care. For points, the strongest plays are acai, aces, acne, acre, acta, acts, arcs, asci, cain, cane, cans, cant, care, carn, cars, cart, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, cert, cine, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, scan, scar, scat, sect, sice, tace, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ascertain turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, cis, ice, rec, sac, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ascertain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ae, ai, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, re, si, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ascertain plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ascertain and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ascertain 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 four senses for ascertain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ascertain is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ascertain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ascertain, craniates, and sectarian, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ascertain 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 ascertain produce 580 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 166 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.