What INSTANT Means
- adjective: occurring with no delay“relief was instantaneous”
- adjective: in or of the present month“your letter of the 10th inst”
- noun: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)“if I had the chance, I'd do it in a flash”
- noun: a particular point in time“the moment he arrived the party began”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
INSTANT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 N1 S1 T1 A1 N1 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 57 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In INSTANT
86 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 (4)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (27)
AINSAITSANISANNSANTIANTSINNSISNAITASNAINNANSNATSNITSSAINSANTSATISNITSTATTAINTAISTAITTANSTATSTIANTINATINSTINT
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (12)
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