Unscramble ALERT to get 55 words. ALERT itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 6 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: ALTER, ARTEL, LATER, RATEL and TALER. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
A1L12E1R1T1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ALERT split into 6 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 20 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALERT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AL · ending in RT · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to ALERT:
What ALERT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
ALERT works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALERT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 55) | 48 | 55 | 47 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
7 of the 55 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ARET, ARLE, LAER, LARE, LEAT, ELT and EA. 1 of the 55 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: TE.
These 12 words take every letter of ALERT plus a single extra one.