Unscramble ANTARCTIC to get 147 words. ANTARCTIC itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are ACRATIC and ATACTIC, 11 points each. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
A1N12T1A1R1C34T1I1C34
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ANTARCTIC split into 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 20 with 6, 39 with 5, 41 with 4, 32 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 8 letters.
5 of 39 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ANTARCTIC tie at 9 points; none scores more. TRAIN, TRACT and TITAN will look familiar.
ACCA and CACA share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words from ANTARCTIC. CART, ANTI and RAIN are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of ANTARCTIC for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with AN · ending in IC · all 9-letter words
What ANTARCTIC means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ANTARCTIC is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTARCTIC itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 147) | 107 | 147 | 99 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
40 of the 147 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ANICCA, CARACT, CINCT, CRAIC, TICCA, ACCA, ACTANT, CANTAR, CRIANT, TRIACT, ARTIC, CARTA and 28 more. 8 of the 147 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: ACRATIC, TACAN, ACAI, CRIA, CRIT, RAITA, TIAN and RAI.
With one more tile, the letters of ANTARCTIC spell the words below.