ALIT is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. ALIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ALIT?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ALIT is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ALIT
No single letter turns ALIT into another word.
How ALIT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in ALIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,017.
What stands out about ALIT
- The same 4 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 ALIT mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterary
To descend from the air and come to rest, as a bird or a passenger settling after a flight or a jump.
A word most often met in stories about birds, insects or acrobats: something alit means it had been moving through the air and then touched down and stayed still. The form is treated as the past tense and past participle of alight, and modern writers increasingly use alighted instead, so alit now reads as slightly old-fashioned or bookish.
How ALIT is used
Literary and slightly archaic; alighted is the more common past tense today.
- A sparrow alit on the windowsill and looked in at us.
- The parachutist alit softly in the middle of the field.
- She alit from the carriage without waiting for the footman.
- A dragonfly alit on the surface of the pond for a moment.
- He watched as the hawk alit on the fence post.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ALIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ALIT
The 4 tiles of ALIT in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with ALIT
4 longer words begin with ALIT.
Words ending in ALIT
8 words end in ALIT. Useful as a back hook: play ALIT onto a word already on the board.
Words with ALIT inside
Showing 24 of 782 words that contain ALIT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ALIT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ALIT
Common questions about ALIT
- Is ALIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ALIT, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ALIT worth?
- ALIT is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ALIT mean?
- To descend from the air and come to rest, as a bird or a passenger settling after a flight or a jump.
- What letters can be added to ALIT?
- No single letter can be added to ALIT to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of ALIT:
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