195 words come out when you unscramble ANTEPAST, starting with ANTEPAST itself: 10 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1N12T1E1P34A1S1T1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ANTEPAST by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 13 with 6, 52 with 5, 60 with 4, 48 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Of the 52 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ANTEPAST, 33 score 7 points, the group's best. STATE, SPENT and TASTE are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words from ANTEPAST, the top score is 6, reached by 36. EAST, PAST and STEP are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ANTEPAST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AN · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
What ANTEPAST means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANTEPAST, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTEPAST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 195) | 161 | 195 | 149 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
34 of the 195 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EPATANT, ATTAPS, PATTES, PESANT, TAPETS, ATTAP, PATTE, PENTS, SAPAN, SPANE, SPEAT, STEPT and 22 more. 12 of the 195 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NAPAS, PAANS, NAPA, PAAN, PST, STENT, NAES, ATS, EST, SAN, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of ANTEPAST spell the words below.