ANSAE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ANSAE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ANSAE?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANSAE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANSAE
No single letter turns ANSAE into another word.
How ANSAE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANSAE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What does ANSAE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
The handle-like extremities that Saturn's rings appeared to show to early observers, or more broadly a pair of looped, handle-shaped projections.
Ansae is the plural of the Latin ansa, meaning handle, and early astronomers such as Galileo reached for the word because Saturn's rings, seen edge-on through weak telescopes, looked like two handles stuck to the planet's disc. The same word turns up in anatomy and architecture wherever a structure forms a looped, handle-like shape. Modern telescopes resolve Saturn's rings clearly, but the old term still appears in histories of early astronomy.
How ANSAE is used
Technical and mostly historical, met in writing about early telescopic astronomy or in anatomical description of handle-shaped structures.
- Galileo's crude telescope showed only the ansae of Saturn's rings.
- Early drawings mistook the ansae for two attached moons.
- The anatomy text described the looped ansae of the structure.
- Better telescopes finally resolved the ansae into a full ring system.
- The report used ansae to describe the vase's twin handles.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANSAE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in ANSAE
Common questions about ANSAE
- Is ANSAE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANSAE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANSAE worth?
- ANSAE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANSAE mean?
- The handle-like extremities that Saturn's rings appeared to show to early observers, or more broadly a pair of looped, handle-shaped projections.
- What letters can be added to ANSAE?
- No single letter can be added to ANSAE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANSAE:
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