Hidden inside aliens sit aliens, alines, elains and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aliens, alines, elains and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from aliens at 6 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in aliens: five come from rearranging its letters, and aliens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens. For points, the strongest plays are aliens, alines, elains, lianes, saline, and silane — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aliens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, lanes, leans, lines, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, elain, elans, lanes, leans, lenis, liane, liens, lines, nails, slain, and snail — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aliens produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, lies, line, nail, sail, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ails, ains, ales, anes, anil, anis, elan, ilea, isle, lain, lane, lase, lean, leas, leis, lens, lias, lien, lies, line, lins, naes, nail, nils, sail, sain, sale, sane, seal, sial, and sine — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aliens turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, sea, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ain, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, els, ens, ins, las, lea, lei, lie, lin, lis, nae, nil, sae, sal, san, sea, sei, sel, sen, and sin — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aliens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, as, el, en, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
40 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in aliens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aliens and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
aliens is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for aliens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
aliens is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aliens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aliens, alines, elains, lianes, saline, and silane, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aliens earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in aliens produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.