What ALIEN Means
- noun: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- noun: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- adjective: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something“an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism”
- adjective: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world“alien customs”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ALIEN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 I1 E1 N1.
Anagrams of ALIEN (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ALIEN
37 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.
4 letter words (12)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (12)
Longer Words Containing ALIEN
ALIEN appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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