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Is alec a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word alec is a Scrabble US word. The word alec is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is alec a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word alec is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

A1L1E1C3

Is alec a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word alec is a Words With Friends word. The word alec is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Alec

You can make 14 words from 'alec' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'alec'

ALEC 6LACE 6

3 letters words from 'alec'

ACE 5ALE 3
CAL 5CEL 5
LAC 5LEA 3

2 letters words from 'alec'

AE 2AL 2
EA 2EL 2
LA 2 

All 4 letters words made out of alec

alec laec aelc ealc leac elac alce lace acle cale lcae clae aecl eacl acel cael ecal ceal leca elca lcea clea ecla cela

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word alec. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in alec.

Definitions and meaning of alec

alec

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).

Noun

alec (countable and uncountable, plural alecs)

  1. An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
  2. A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.

Derived terms

  • alec sauce
  • alecy

See also

  • smart alec, smart aleck

References

  • New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary By Edy G. Schaffer, HarperCollins, 1996, page 446, "Fish...pickle ALEC" and "Fish...sauce ALEC"
  • An abridgement of Ainsworth's dictionary, English and Latin By Robert Ainsworth & Thomas Morell, Kimber & Conrad and Johnson & Warner, 1808, page 173, "herring, Alec [...] pickled herring, Alec"
  • "Fish sauces", Fraser's Magazine, Volume 43 By Thomas Carlyle, J. Fraser, 1851, page 267, "[T]he ancient alec corresponds to the modern anchovy... Garum, like alec, was sometimes the name given to a Greek fish (the species unknown) and sometimes the sauce formed from it." [Italics added]
  • "Herrings", The Westminster Review, Volumes 81-82, J.M. Mason, 1864, page 178, "The anchovy...was well known and appreciated by the ancients, at least in a pickled state. It was known to the Romans by alec or halec and aphya; it appears at one time to have been used in making the celebrated garum or fish sauce, of which the alec sauce was a thickened variety". [Italics retained from original]
  • Prose halieutics: or, Ancient and modern fish tattle By David Badham, J. W. Parker and Son, 1854, page 70-72, "Alec, like garum, was at once the name of a fish and of a sauce made from it... That the fish called halecula, of which the alec [sauce] was originally made, was the anchovy, seems probable [...but some] manufactured alec out of crabs, oysters, shrimps, sea-urchins, and a variety of improper substitutes".

Anagrams

  • Acle, Cela, acle, cale, lace

Latin

Noun

ālēc n (genitive ālēcis); third declension

  1. Alternative spelling of allēc

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

References

  • alec in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • alec in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Source: wiktionary.org
  • a herring.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)