Is ALTER a word?
ALTER is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words With Friends, has 5 letters, and can be rearranged into 5 other words, plus 37 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, ALTER is a valid word.
What does alter mean?
verb: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
“The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
ALTER: word details
- Pronunciation: AWL-tur (approx., 2 syllables)
- Length: 5 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 12,578 5-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 5 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 6 points on the tiles.
- Wordle: five letters, so ALTER works as a Wordle guess or answer.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of alter
Shorter words inside alter
Words you can make from the letters of alter.
Solve a whole rack, not just ALTER
ALTER is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does ALTER mean?
ALTER is a verb. It means: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
Is ALTER a valid word?
Yes, ALTER is a valid word. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.