Hidden inside alone sit alone and anole, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alone and anole tie for the highest Scrabble score from alone at 5 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in alone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone. For points, the strongest plays are alone and anole — 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 alone produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lane, lean, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are aeon, aloe, elan, enol, lane, lean, leno, loan, lone, noel, and olea — 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 alone turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with one. For points, the strongest plays are ale, ane, eon, lea, nae, ole, and one — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, an, el, en, la, lo, na, ne, no, oe, and on — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in alone and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
alone 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 alone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
alone is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alone and anole, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alone 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 alone produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.