ALANG is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. ALANG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALANG?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALANG is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALANG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALANG scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALANG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does ALANG mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
A coarse tropical grass, native to Malaysia and nearby regions, often used for thatching roofs.
Alang is best known through the reduplicated form alang-alang, the everyday Malay name for the grass, and English borrowed the shorter single word as its own botanical term for the same plant. Villagers across Southeast Asia have long cut and dried alang to bundle into roofing material, valued for being light, cheap, and readily available compared with timber or tile. Because the plant spreads aggressively once established, it is also treated in some regions as a persistent weed of cleared farmland rather than only as a useful resource. English dictionaries list alang chiefly as a loanword confined to descriptions of Southeast Asian plant life and rural building practice.
How ALANG is used
A loanword from Malay, met almost only in descriptions of Southeast Asian vegetation and thatched roofing.
- The roof of the hut was thatched entirely with dried alang.
- Alang grew back quickly on the cleared hillside within a season.
- Farmers regard alang as useful for thatch but troublesome as a weed.
- Bundles of alang were stacked outside ready for the new roof.
- The botanist noted how far alang had spread along the riverbank.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALANG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALANG
The 5 tiles of ALANG in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALANG
1 longer words begin with ALANG.
Words ending in ALANG
1 words end in ALANG. Useful as a back hook: play ALANG onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALANG inside
Showing 24 of 29 words that contain ALANG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ALANG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALANG
Common questions about ALANG
- Is ALANG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALANG, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALANG worth?
- ALANG is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALANG mean?
- A coarse tropical grass, native to Malaysia and nearby regions, often used for thatching roofs.
- What letters can be added to ALANG?
- ALANG takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALANG:
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