Unscramble ALDERN and you have 97 words, ALDERN itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: DARNEL, ENLARD, LANDER, LARNED and RELAND. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ALDERN by length: 6 with 6 letters, 13 with 5, 36 with 4, 26 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Of the 36 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ALDERN, 20 score 5 points, the group's best. READ, REAL and LAND are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ALDERN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with AL · ending in RN · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DARNEL, LANDER, LARNED and RELAND (7 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ALDERN is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDERN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 97) | 76 | 97 | 69 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: ALDERN, ENLARD, ARLED, DEARN, LANDE, ARED, DERN, EARD, NERAL, RADE, ARD, ARLE and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: LARNED, RELAND, DENAR, DAN, LARN, NARE and DA.
These 12 words take every letter of ALDERN plus a single extra one.