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Is ascend a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word ascend is a Scrabble US word. The word ascend is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

A1S1C3E1N1D2

Is ascend a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word ascend is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

A1S1C3E1N1D2

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Yes. The word ascend is a Words With Friends word. The word ascend is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

A1S1C4E1N2D2

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6-letter words (3 found)

ASCEND,DANCES,DECANS,

5-letter words (18 found)

ACNED,ACNES,ANCES,CADES,CANED,CANES,CASED,DACES,DANCE,DEANS,DECAN,ECADS,SANED,SCAND,SCENA,SCEND,SEDAN,SNEAD,

4-letter words (34 found)

ACED,ACES,ACNE,AESC,ANCE,ANDS,ANES,CADE,CADS,CANE,CANS,CASE,CEAS,CENS,DACE,DAES,DANS,DEAN,DENS,EANS,ECAD,ENDS,NADS,NAES,NEDS,SADE,SAND,SANE,SCAD,SCAN,SEAN,SENA,SEND,SNED,

3-letter words (27 found)

ACE,ADS,AND,ANE,ANS,CAD,CAN,DAE,DAN,DAS,DEN,EAN,EAS,EDS,END,ENS,NAE,NAS,NED,SAC,SAD,SAE,SAN,SEA,SEC,SED,SEN,

2-letter words (12 found)

AD,AE,AN,AS,DA,DE,EA,ED,EN,ES,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 95 words from ascend according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ascend

ascend

Etymology

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈsɛnd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd
  • Hyphenation: as‧cend

Verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)

  1. (intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.
  2. (intransitive) To slope in an upward direction.
  3. (transitive) To go up.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To succeed a ruler on (the throne).
  5. (intransitive, figurative) To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc.
  6. To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.).
  7. (transitive, music) To become higher in pitch.
  8. (incel slang) To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman.

Antonyms

  • descend

Related terms

  • ascent
  • ascendant
  • ascendance
  • ascendancy/ascendency
  • ascending
  • ascender
  • ascension
  • transcend

Translations

See also

  • climb

Further reading

  • “ascend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “ascend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Dances, dances, decans, descan

French

Pronunciation

Verb

ascend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ascendre

Source: wiktionary.org