ALANT is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ALANT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALANT?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALANT is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALANT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does ALANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
An old name for elecampane, a tall plant with large yellow flowers and a bitter aromatic root once used in herbal medicine.
Alant refers chiefly to elecampane, a coarse, tall-growing plant of the daisy family whose thick root was dried and used for centuries in remedies for coughs and digestive trouble. The same short word, alongside the spellings alan and aland, also names an entirely separate thing: an old term for a large, powerful hunting dog once used to bring down boar and other big game. Herbalists and gardeners are the ones most likely to meet alant in its plant sense today, usually in older or specialist texts rather than everyday speech. The word's two meanings survive as a curious case of one short spelling covering both a flower and a forgotten breed of hound.
How ALANT is used
A rare, old-fashioned word met mainly in herbal and historical writing rather than in modern conversation.
- The herbalist dug up the thick root of the alant in autumn.
- Old remedies for coughs often called for dried alant root.
- The garden book listed alant among plants once grown for medicine.
- Medieval hunters were said to loose a fierce alant on wounded boar.
- A patch of tall alant grew wild at the edge of the old orchard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALANT
The 5 tiles of ALANT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALANT
1 longer words begin with ALANT.
Words ending in ALANT
7 words end in ALANT. Useful as a back hook: play ALANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALANT inside
14 words contain ALANT in the middle. Words that start with ALANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALANT
Common questions about ALANT
- Is ALANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALANT, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALANT worth?
- ALANT is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALANT mean?
- An old name for elecampane, a tall plant with large yellow flowers and a bitter aromatic root once used in herbal medicine.
- What letters can be added to ALANT?
- ALANT takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALANT:
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