102 words come out when you unscramble ALTERN, starting with ALTERN itself: 6 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: ANTLER, LEARNT, RENTAL and TERNAL. 14 shorter words score 5, among them LEARN, LATER and ALERT. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
A1L12T1E1R1N12
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ALTERN by length: 5 with 6 letters, 14 with 5, 36 with 4, 31 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Keep every letter of ALTERN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with AL · ending in RN · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ANTLER, LEARNT and RENTAL (6 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts ALTERN, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTERN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 102) | 84 | 102 | 80 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
18 of the 102 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALTERN, TERNAL, EARNT, NERAL, ARET, ARLE, LAER, LANT, LARE, LEAT, NEAL, REAN and 6 more. 4 of the 102 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LARNT, LARN, NARE and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of ALTERN spell the words below.