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ALARMS

6 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What ALARMS Means

ALARMS is a form of ALARM, which means:

  1. noun: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
  2. noun: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
  3. verb: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised“I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview”
  4. verb: warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness“The empty house alarmed him”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ALARMS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 A1 R1 M3 S1.

Anagrams of ALARMS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ALARMS

60 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

5 letter words (10)

4 letter words (23)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (7)

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