Unscramble INSTANCE to get 259 words. INSTANCE itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of INSTANCE are on the page: ANCIENTS, CANNIEST and INSECTAN, each 10 points. 11 shorter words score 9, among them ANCIENT, NASCENT and CANINES. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for catinnes, caninest, canniste, cenistan, canisent, centsina, scientan, scinante, sicatenn or canisten? They use the same letters as INSTANCE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from INSTANCE by length: 4 with 8 letters, 15 with 7, 42 with 6, 59 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 19 with 2.
27 of 42 6-letter words from INSTANCE tie at 8 points; none scores more. TENNIS, INSECT and INSANE will look familiar.
59 5-letter words you get when you unscramble INSTANCE; 27 of them share the top score of 7. SAINT, CENTS and SATIN are everyday picks.
34 of 60 4-letter words in INSTANCE tie at 6 points; none scores more. CASE, EAST and NICE will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words made with INSTANCE letters, 12 score 5 points, the group's best. CAN, ITS and SET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of INSTANCE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with IN · ending in CE · all 8-letter words
The meaning of INSTANCE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. INSTANCE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSTANCE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 259) | 204 | 256 | 190 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 52 of them: CANIEST, ANETIC, ENIACS, NEANIC, SCIENT, CANNS, ENIAC, NANITES, SCEAT, TANNIES, TICES, AESC and 40 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: INCENTS, CENTAI, CENTAS, INCENT, ETICS, SEITAN, SINNET, TECS, TEC, TEINS, TIANS, NAES and 5 more. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 3 of them: NANCIES, NANCES and NANCE.
With one more tile, the letters of INSTANCE spell the words below.