ASCENTS Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What ASCENTS Means

ASCENTS is a form of ASCENT, which means:

noun: an upward slope or grade (as in a road)“the car couldn't make it up the rise”
noun: a movement upward; rise above the ground“they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ASCENTS 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 S1 C3 E1 N1 T1 S1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of ASCENTS (2)

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

SECANTS STANCES

Words Made From The Letters In ASCENTS

157 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.