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ALERTING

8 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ALERTING Means

  1. noun: a state of readiness to respond“alerting was indicated by the desynchronization of the EEG”
  2. noun: a warning serves to make you more alert to danger

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ALERTING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 E1 R1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of ALERTING (6)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In ALERTING

448 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.

7 letter words (29)

6 letter words (69)

5 letter words (102)

4 letter words (144)

3 letter words (81)

2 letter words (23)

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