ANA is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. ANA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 4 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 54 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANA is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 9 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANA
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANA scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ANA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 749.
What stands out about ANA
- ANA is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANA mean in Scrabble?
noun
A collection of sayings or anecdotes about a person.
Ana is a suffix that broke loose and became a word of its own, in the same way ism did. It is used as a plural and normally takes a name in front of it: everything anecdotal about one man forms his ana.
How ANA is used
Plural in form and in use. Often after a name.
- The ana of that writer fill two volumes.
- The word ana is a suffix that became a noun.
- An ana is not a biography and does not try to be.
- Ana is used as a plural even about one collection.
- Both ana and ism escaped from the ends of words.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ANA
Showing 24 of 432 words that begin with ANA.
Words ending in ANA
Showing 24 of 94 words that end in ANA. Useful as a back hook: play ANA onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANA inside
Showing 24 of 789 words that contain ANA somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ANA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANA
Common questions about ANA
- Is ANA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANA, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANA worth?
- ANA is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANA mean?
- A collection of sayings or anecdotes about a person.
- What letters can be added to ANA?
- ANA takes 9 hooks: 6 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ANA:
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