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ALTERNATED

10 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

ALTERNATED is a valid 10-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 20 in Super Big Boggle.

ALTERNATED root ALTERNATE-d

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.