ANT is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. ANT 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 ANT?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 16 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ANT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 499.
What stands out about ANT
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small social insect that lives in colonies.
Ant is a worn-down form of a much longer Old English word meaning the biter-off. The related emmet survived in dialect, and in Cornwall it became a name for summer visitors rather than for insects.
How ANT is used
Countable: an ant, two ants.
- An ant carries fifty times its own weight and never boasts.
- The word ant is worn down from a much longer one.
- Two ants in the sugar means four hundred nearby.
- Emmet is the older form of ant.
- In Cornwall an emmet is a tourist and not an ant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANT
The 3 tiles of ANT in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ANT
Showing 24 of 1389 words that begin with ANT.
Words ending in ANT
Showing 24 of 816 words that end in ANT. Useful as a back hook: play ANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ANT inside
Showing 24 of 2798 words that contain ANT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ANT
Common questions about ANT
- Is ANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ANT, where it scores 4 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ANT worth?
- ANT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANT mean?
- A small social insect that lives in colonies.
- What letters can be added to ANT?
- ANT takes 16 hooks: 12 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ANT:
Open ANT in the Word Finder