ALIEN is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ALIEN 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 ALIEN?
| 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 ALIEN is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALIEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
aliensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ALIEN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ALIEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,227.
What stands out about ALIEN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 4 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 ALIEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
A person who is not a citizen of the country in which they are living, or a being imagined to come from another world.
In everyday and legal use, an alien is someone living in a country without holding its citizenship, a sense that still appears in immigration law and official documents. In science fiction and popular culture, the same word instead names a creature or life form imagined to come from another planet, often unlike anything found on Earth. As an adjective, alien describes anything foreign, unfamiliar or strange, from an alien custom to a plant species introduced from elsewhere and later naturalised. The two main senses, foreigner and extraterrestrial, both share the same root idea of coming from somewhere outside one's own familiar world.
How ALIEN is used
Common in legal and immigration contexts for a non-citizen, and equally common in science fiction for a being from another world.
- The form asked whether the applicant was a resident alien.
- The film showed an alien stepping out of a strange craft.
- Her customs felt alien to the villagers at first.
- Botanists tracked how the alien species spread along the riverbank.
- He described the courtroom procedure as completely alien to him.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALIEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALIEN
The 5 tiles of ALIEN in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with ALIEN
Showing 24 of 29 words that begin with ALIEN.
Words ending in ALIEN
1 words end in ALIEN. Useful as a back hook: play ALIEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALIEN inside
17 words contain ALIEN in the middle. Words that start with ALIEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALIEN
Common questions about ALIEN
- Is ALIEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALIEN, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALIEN worth?
- ALIEN is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALIEN mean?
- A person who is not a citizen of the country in which they are living, or a being imagined to come from another world.
- What letters can be added to ALIEN?
- ALIEN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ALIEN:
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