ALIBLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ALIBLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALIBLE?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALIBLE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALIBLE
No single letter turns ALIBLE into another word.
How ALIBLE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ALIBLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 102,199.
What stands out about ALIBLE
- The same 6 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ALIBLE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rarearchaic
Providing nourishment; nourishing or nutritious.
Alible comes from the Latin alibilis, related to the verb alere, to nourish, the same root that gives English words such as alimony and alimentary. Older writers used alible to praise food or substances that build up strength and health, much as a modern writer would simply say nourishing or nutritious. The word has fallen almost entirely out of ordinary use and now survives mainly in dictionaries and in deliberately old-fashioned or scholarly prose.
How ALIBLE is used
A rare, largely archaic adjective, replaced in modern English almost entirely by nourishing or nutritious.
- The old herbal praised the root as an alible remedy for the weak.
- He called broth the most alible of foods for the sick.
- The physician recommended alible meals during her recovery.
- An alible diet was thought to restore strength after illness.
- The translator kept the old word alible rather than modernizing it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALIBLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALIBLE
The 6 tiles of ALIBLE in a different order — 2 found.
Shorter words from the letters in ALIBLE
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Common questions about ALIBLE
- Is ALIBLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALIBLE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALIBLE worth?
- ALIBLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALIBLE mean?
- Providing nourishment; nourishing or nutritious.
- What letters can be added to ALIBLE?
- No single letter can be added to ALIBLE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ALIBLE:
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