What ALKALIS Means
ALKALIS is a form of ALKALI, which means:
- noun: any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water“bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia”
- noun: a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ALKALIS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 K5 A1 L1 I1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In ALKALIS
73 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.
6 letter words (3)
5 letter words (13)
4 letter words (25)
AALSAIASAILSAKASALASALLSILKAILKSILLSKAALKAASKAILKAISKALIKILLLAIKLIASLISKSAILSAKISALLSIALSIKASILKSILL
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.