Unscramble ALIENING and you have 128 words, ALIENING itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 8 points, LEANING, NAILING and ALINING among them. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for enailing? They use the same letters as ALIENING, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from ALIENING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 7, 13 with 6, 23 with 5, 39 with 4, 31 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 39 4-letter words from ALIENING, 21 score 5 points, the group's best. LINE, GAIN and NINE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ALIENING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AL · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What ALIENING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ALIENING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIENING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 100 | 128 | 94 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NEALING, EALING, EANING, GINNEL, INGINE, GENAL, INGAN, LIGNE, AGEN, GEAL, GENA, GILA and 16 more, 28 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: INNAGE, LIGNAN, GEAN, INNIE, NEG and GI, 6 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of ALIENING spell the words below.