alternate is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

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Meanings

Adjective (NOT COMPARABLE)

Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
• Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique.
(mathematics) 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.
(US) Other; alternative.
• Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.

Noun (COUNTABLE)

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
(US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
(mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

Verb

(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
(intransitive) To 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.
(intransitive) To vary by turns.
• The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

alternate is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 9 points

alternate is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 45 points

alternate is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 45 points

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Same letters words (Anagrams)

• none

Same letters plus one

• ALTERNATED
• ALTERNATES
• ARTELINATE
• PLANTEATER
• TARENTELLA
• TRALINEATE
• TRANSLATEE

Same letters minus one

• ALTERANT
• ALTERNAT
• ANTEATER
• ATTLEEAN
• ELATRATE
• RANELATE
• TARLETAN