23 words come out when you unscramble ALES, starting with ALES itself: 4 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. ALES has 5 anagrams here, LASE, LEAS, SALE, SEAL and SLAE, scoring 4 like ALES itself. 10 shorter words score 3, among them SEA, LAS and ALS. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ALES split into 6 with 4 letters, 10 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with AL · ending in ES · all 4-letter words
The meaning of ALES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ALES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 23) | 20 | 23 | 20 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
3 of the 23 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SLAE, EAS and EA.
With one more tile, the letters of ALES spell the words below.