What ALTER Means
- verb: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation“The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city”
- verb: become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence“her mood changes in accordance with the weather”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
ALTER 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 T1 E1 R1.
Anagrams of ALTER (5)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In ALTER
49 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 (17)
3 letter words (20)
2 letter words (12)
Longer Words Containing ALTER
ALTER appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ALTERABLEALTERABLYALTERANTALTERANTSALTERATIONALTERATIVEALTERCATEALTERCATEDALTERCATESALTEREDALTERERALTERERSALTERINGALTERITIESALTERITYALTERNALTERNANCEALTERNANTALTERNANTSALTERNATALTERNATEALTERNATEDALTERNATESALTERNATIMALTERNATORALTERNATSALTERNEALTERNESALTERSASPHALTERASPHALTERSDESALTERDESALTERSDRYSALTERDRYSALTERSDRYSALTERYEXALTEREXALTERSFALTERFALTERED
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