What ANCIENT Means
- noun: a very old person
- noun: a person who lived in ancient times
- adjective: belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire“ancient history”
- adjective: very old“an ancient mariner”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ANCIENT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 N1 C3 I1 E1 N1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In ANCIENT
101 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.
6 letter words (14)
5 letter words (10)
4 letter words (30)
ACNEAINEANCEANTEANTICAINCANECANNCANTCATECENTCINECITEEINAETICETNANAINNANENEATNICENINENITETACETAINTANETEINTIANTICETINATINE
3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (14)
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