Unscramble ALIEN and you have 42 words, ALIEN itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of ALIEN are on the page: ALINE, ANILE, ELAIN and LIANE, each 5 points. The best shorter words score 4: 12 of them, LINE, LANE and NAIL included. 5 letters: 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
Looking for elina, leian, elnia, liean, lenia, nilae, eilna, nelia, ainel or alnie? They use the same letters as ALIEN, so the words on this page are their answers too.
A1L12I1E1N12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from ALIEN by length: 5 with 5 letters, 12 with 4, 13 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALIEN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with AL · ending in EN · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to ALIEN:
ALIEN first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ALIEN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIEN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 36 | 42 | 36 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AINE, EINA, NEAL, EAN, NIE and EA, 6 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of ALIEN plus a single extra one.