Unscramble ANSATZ and you have 36 words, ANSATZ itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of ANSATZ is on the page: STANZA, each 15 points. AZANS is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ANSATZ split into 2 with 6 letters, 3 with 5, 10 with 4, 13 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of ANSATZ but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with AN · ending in Z · all 6-letter words
ANSATZ first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: ANSATZ is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANSATZ itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 36) | 27 | 36 | 21 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 36 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAZ, TANAS, NATS, SANT, TANA, ANS, NAS, NAT and ST. 6 of the 36 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ANSATZ, ZAS, ZA, STAN, ATS and SAN.
These 2 words take every letter of ANSATZ plus a single extra one.