Unscramble ASSISTANT and you have 140 words, ASSISTANT itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of ASSISTANT is on the page: SATANISTS, each 9 points. SATANIST and TSANTSAS are the best of the shorter words, at 8 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from ASSISTANT split into 2 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 5 with 7, 18 with 6, 30 with 5, 38 with 4, 32 with 3 and 13 with 2.
The 4-letter words made with ASSISTANT letters come to 38, each scoring 4 points. ANTI, SITS and SINS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ASSISTANT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AS · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
ASSISTANT first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ASSISTANT 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSISTANT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 140) | 99 | 140 | 91 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
41 of the 140 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TSANTSAS, ISTANAS, TSANTSA, ISTANA, SANSAS, SATAIS, SISTAS, TASSAS, NATIS, SAIST, SANSA, SANTS and 29 more. 8 of the 140 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: STATINS, STATIN, STANS, TIANS, STAN, TIAN, ATS and SAN.
Each word below uses all the letters of ASSISTANT and one more.