Unscramble ALIENATES to get 293 words. ALIENATES itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, ALIENATE and ELASTANE lead with 8 points. The 9 letters split into 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
A1L12I1E1N12A1T1E1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from ALIENATES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 25 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 25 with 2.
Every one of the 25 7-letter words in ALIENATES scores 7. ENTAILS, TENSILE and SALIENT are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 6-letter words from ALIENATES score 6 points. LISTEN, SENATE and SILENT are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ALIENATES scores 5. LEAST, LEASE and ELITE are everyday picks.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ALIENATES come to 60, each scoring 4 points. LAST, EAST and LATE are the familiar ones.
Every one of the 60 3-letter words from ALIENATES scores 3. SEE, ITS and LET are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of ALIENATES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AL · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
What ALIENATES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ALIENATES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIENATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 293) | 231 | 293 | 217 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 62 of them: ANTLIAE, EASTLIN, ELANETS, SEALINE, STANIEL, ANTLIA, ELANET, ENSATE, ENSEAL, ISTANA, LAESIE, NELIES and 50 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: ELASTANE, LATINAS, LENITES, INTELS, LATINA, LENITE, SEITAN, TENESI, INTEL, ESNE, ATS, EST and 2 more.
This word takes every letter of ALIENATES plus a single extra one.