What ASKANCE Means
- adverb: with suspicion or disapproval“he looked askance at the offer”
- adverb: with a side or oblique glance“did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes”
- adjective: (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy“her eyes with their misted askance look”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ASKANCE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 S1 K5 A1 N1 C3 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In ASKANCE
89 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 (1)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (37)
ACESACNEAESCAKASAKESANASANCEANESANSAASEACAASCAKECANECANSCASACASECASKCEASCENSEANSKAASKAESKANAKANEKANSKEASKENSNECKNEKSSACKSAKESANESANKSCANSEANSENASKEN
3 letter words (27)
2 letter words (10)
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