ALKALIES

What ALKALIES Means

ALKALIES is a form of ALKALI, which means:

1. 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”
2. noun: a mixture of soluble salts found in arid soils and some bodies of water; detrimental to agriculture

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ALKALIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as A1 L1 K5 A1 L1 I1 E1 S1.

Anagrams of ALKALIES (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In ALKALIES

149 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 (1)

6 letter words (8)

5 letter words (29)

4 letter words (57)

3 letter words (40)

2 letter words (14)

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