ALATE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ALATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALATE?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALATE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALATE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 2 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 7,262.
What does ALATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
zoologybotany
Having wings or wing-like extensions, used especially of insects and certain seeds or fruits.
Alate describes an organism or structure that has developed wings, most often used by entomologists talking about winged forms of insects such as aphids, termites or ants that otherwise live as wingless workers. Botanists borrow the same word for seeds or stems that carry thin, flattened extensions resembling wings, which help the seed spin and travel further on the wind. An alate form usually appears at a particular stage of an insect's life cycle, such as when a colony produces winged individuals ready to disperse and found new colonies. The word comes from the Latin term for wing and belongs mainly to technical, scientific description.
How ALATE is used
A technical term from entomology and botany, rarely used outside scientific or specialist writing.
- The colony produced alate ants ready to fly off and mate.
- An alate aphid can spread the infestation to a new plant.
- The seed pod carried an alate wing that let it glide on the breeze.
- Only a few alate termites survive their first flight from the nest.
- Botanists examined the alate stem under a microscope.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALATE
The 5 tiles of ALATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ALATE
2 longer words begin with ALATE.
Words ending in ALATE
15 words end in ALATE. Useful as a back hook: play ALATE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALATE inside
23 words contain ALATE in the middle. Words that start with ALATE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALATE
Common questions about ALATE
- Is ALATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALATE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALATE worth?
- ALATE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALATE mean?
- Having wings or wing-like extensions, used especially of insects and certain seeds or fruits.
- What letters can be added to ALATE?
- ALATE takes 4 hooks: 2 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALATE:
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