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ANCESTOR

8 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ANCESTOR Means

  1. noun: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ANCESTOR is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 N1 C3 E1 S1 T1 O1 R1.

Anagrams of ANCESTOR (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ANCESTOR

587 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

7 letter words (32)

6 letter words (99)

5 letter words (180)

4 letter words (167)

3 letter words (86)

2 letter words (23)

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