Unscramble ASCERTAIN to get 351 words. ASCERTAIN itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: CRANIATES and SECTARIAN. Among the shorter answers, 19 reach 10 points, CANISTER, CANARIES and ACARINES among them. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from ASCERTAIN by length: 3 with 9 letters, 25 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 23 with 2.
19 of 25 8-letter words made with ASCERTAIN letters tie at 10 points; none scores more. CANISTER will look familiar.
Of the 60 7-letter words from ASCERTAIN, 43 score 9 points, the group's best. CERTAIN, RETAINS and ARTISAN are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble ASCERTAIN scores 8. INSECT, CAIRNS and ASCENT are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 5-letter words in ASCERTAIN score 7 points. ACRES, CENTS and RACES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words made with ASCERTAIN letters; 58 of them share the top score of 6. CASE, CARE and CART are everyday picks.
Among 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble ASCERTAIN, the top score is 5, reached by 16. ARE, CAN and ITS are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of ASCERTAIN for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with AS · ending in IN · all 9-letter words
What ASCERTAIN means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ASCERTAIN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASCERTAIN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 351) | 282 | 351 | 256 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
69 of the 351 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARCANIST, CANASTER, CARNIEST, NACRITES, ACATERS, CANIEST, CANTARS, CANTIER, CERASIN, CRINATE, ECTASIA, NACRITE and 57 more. 26 of the 351 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CARNITAS, SARCINAE, TACRINES, ATRESIC, SARCINA, TACRINE, ARTESIAN, CENTAI, CENTAS, SANTERIA, ACAIS, CERTS and 14 more.
With one more tile, the letters of ASCERTAIN spell the words below.