Unscramble ALERTING to get 299 words. ALERTING itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: ALTERING, INTEGRAL, RELATING, TANGLIER, TERAGLIN and TRIANGLE. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ALERTING by length: 7 with 8 letters, 29 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 23 with 2.
Among 29 7-letter words made with ALERTING letters, the top score is 8, reached by 23. GRANITE, GENITAL and RELIANT are the familiar ones.
48 of 60 6-letter words from ALERTING tie at 7 points; none scores more. RATING, LINEAR and EATING will look familiar.
60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ALERTING; 53 of them share the top score of 6. GREAT, LARGE and RANGE are everyday picks.
56 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ALERTING tie at 5 points; none scores more. GIRL, RING and GEAR will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words from ALERTING, 27 score 4 points, the group's best. ARE, GET and ART are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of ALERTING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with AL · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
ALERTING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ALERTING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALERTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 299) | 235 | 299 | 226 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 64 of them: TERAGLIN, LAERING, LEARING, RATLING, TRANGLE, TRINGLE, AGILER, ARLING, EALING, ENGILT, ENTRAIL, ERLANG and 52 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: TAGLINE, TAGINE, GATER, AREG, GEAN, GITE, NEG, GI and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of ALERTING plus a single extra one.