Ancestor
Ancestor is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 10 points
- Letters
- 8
- Syllables
- 3
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of ancestor
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nounSomeone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).
Similar: ascendant , ascendent , antecedent , root
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of ancestor
- enactors10
Words inside ancestor
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- senator7
- coaster9
- treason7
- cantors9
- cartons9
- contras9
- corneas9
- cornets9
- nectars9
- recants9
- trances9
- atoners7
- canters9
- carnets9
- coarsen9
- coaters9
- cratons9
- enactor9
- narcose9
- octanes9
- scanter9
- tanrecs9
- reason6
- actors8
- escort8
- sector8
- stance8
- ascent8
- canoes8
- cantor8
- carton8
- caster8
- castor8
- caters8
- censor8
- coarse8
- contra8
- corset8
- cranes8
- crates8
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