Hidden inside ascertains sit ascertains and sectarians, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 771 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ascertains and sectarians tie for the highest Scrabble score from ascertains at 12 points. The top 10 of 771 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in ascertains: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ascertains 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 ascertains and sectarians, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ascertains turns up 12 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascertain, canisters, caritases, cesarians, craniates, estancias, sacristan, scenarist, sectarian, and staircase, 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 40 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ascertains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scariest. For points, the strongest plays are acarines, acrasins, arcsines, arsenics, canaries, canister, carinate, carnitas, caterans, ceratins, cesarian, cineasts, cisterna, cisterns, craniate, creatins, estancia, narcists, raciness, sarcinae, sarcinas, scantier, scanties, scariest, 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 ascertains produces 95 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actress, certain, nastier, and racists. For points, the strongest plays are acarine, acetins, acrasin, actress, ancress, anticar, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, ascaris, ascents, ascites, atresic, caesars, canters, carates, carinae, carinas, caritas, carnets, carnies, caseins, caserns, casitas, cassena, cassina, cassine, casters, catenas, cateran, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, creatin, cretins, cristae, ectasis, incases, incests, insects, narcist, nectars, raciest, racists, recants, recasts, sacrist, sarcina, satanic, scanter, secants, stances, 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 ascertains turns up 163 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, crises, nicest, racist, raises, reacts, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, acinar, actins, antics, arcane, arecas, arnica, ascent, caesar, cairns, caners, canter, carate, carats, caress, carets, caries, carina, carnet, carnie, carses, cartes, casein, casern, casita, cassia, caster, castes, catena, caters, centai, centas, centra, cerias, cestas, citers, cranes, crania, crases, crasis, crates, crests, cretin, crises, crissa, crista, enacts, enatic, ericas, escars, incase, incest, insect, nacres, nastic, nectar, nicest, racist, rances, reacts, recant, recast, recits, saices, sancta, scants, scares, scarts, scenas, scents, scrans, scries, secant, seracs, 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 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ascertains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, saner, scare, scars, scent, seats, and since. For points, the strongest plays are sacra, saice, scans, scant, scare, scars, scart, scats, scena, scent, scran, sects, serac, sices, since, tacan, taces, acais, acari, aceta, acnes, acres, actin, aecia, antic, areca, areic, cains, cairn, caner, canes, canst, cants, carat, cares, caret, carns, carse, carte, carts, casas, cases, caste, casts, cater, cates, cents, ceria, certs, cesta, cesti, cines, cires, cists, citer, cites, crane, crass, crate, cress, crest, crias, cries, crits, enact, erica, escar, etics, nacre, narcs, naric, nicer, races, rance, react, recit, recta, recti, rices, 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 ascertains produces 153 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, area, arts, near, and neat. For points, the strongest plays are acai, aces, acne, acre, acta, acts, arcs, asci, narc, nice, race, recs, rice, sacs, scan, scar, scat, secs, sect, sice, sics, cain, cane, cans, cant, care, carn, cars, cart, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, cert, cess, cine, cire, cist, cite, cria, cris, crit, etic, ices, 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 ascertains turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ass, and ate. 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 ascertains. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ascertains plus one additional letter.
ascertains 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 ascertains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ascertains is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ascertains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ascertains and sectarians, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ascertains 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 ascertains produce 771 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 12 nine-letter words, 40 eight-letter words, 95 seven-letter words, 163 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 153 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.