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ALTERNATE

9 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

ALTERNATE is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

ALTERNATES-s 11 ALTERNATING 11 ALTERNATED-d 11

Might be on the same board

Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

ALTERN 3 ALTERNE 5 ALTERNES 11 ALTERNANT 11 ALTERNANCE 11 ALTERNANTS 11 ALTERNATOR 11 ALTERNANCES 11 ALTERNATELY 11 ALTERNATION 11 ALTERNATIVE 11 ALTERNATORS 11 ALTERNATIONS 11 ALTERNATIVES 11 ALTERNATIVELY 11 ALTERNATIVENESS 11 ALTERNATIVENESSES 11
adjective
  1. Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
  2. Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
  3. Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
    • the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
  4. USOther; alternative.
    • Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.
    • He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.
    • Let's take an alternate route to avoid the traffic jam.
  5. Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
    • Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
noun
  1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  2. USA substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
    • An alternate for the first-string quarterback played the entire first half.
  3. A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  4. USA replacement of equal or greater value or function.
verb
  1. transitiveTo perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  2. intransitiveTo happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
    • The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
  3. intransitiveTo vary by turns.
    • The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
  4. transitiveTo perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.