Unscramble ANTECEDENTS to get 326 words. ANTECEDENTS itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, ANTECEDENT leads with 13 points. The 11 letters split into 4 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from ANTECEDENTS split into 1 with 11 letters, 1 with 10, 10 with 9, 15 with 8, 41 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Just 1 of the 10-letter words in ANTECEDENTS: ANTECEDENT, for 13 points.
14 of 41 7-letter words you get when you unscramble ANTECEDENTS tie at 10 points; none scores more. SCANNED, TENANTS and ENACTED will look familiar.
60 6-letter words from ANTECEDENTS; 19 of them share the top score of 9. STATED, ATTEND and DETECT are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words in ANTECEDENTS, the top score is 8, reached by 14. NEEDS, DANCE and DATES are the familiar ones.
7 of 60 4-letter words made with ANTECEDENTS letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. DATE, NEED and SEND will look familiar.
CAD scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble ANTECEDENTS at 6 points, ahead of ACE and ACT on 5. CAN, SEE and SET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ANTECEDENTS but one, change that one, and you get:
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Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; ANTECEDES, ASCENDENT, DECENTEST, SENTENCED, TENDANCES and TENDENCES (12 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ANTECEDENTS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTECEDENTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 326) | 253 | 324 | 238 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 71 of them: DANCETTEE, DANCETTES, DANCETTE, DECTETS, CADEES, CANTEST, CASTED, DECTET, NEDETTES, SCENED, CADEE, CTENES and 59 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: DECANS, CENTAS, DECAN, STANNED, ATTED, TECS, DANS, TEC, DAN, DAS, EDS, ATS and 5 more. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 2 of them: NANCES and NANCE.