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Is alible a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word alible is a Scrabble US word. The word alible is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is alible a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word alible is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

A1L1I1B3L1E1

Is alible a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word alible is a Words With Friends word. The word alible is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (3 found)

ALIBLE,LABILE,LIABLE,

5-letter words (3 found)

ILEAL,LABEL,LIBEL,

4-letter words (13 found)

ABLE,ALBE,BAEL,BAIL,BALE,BALL,BEAL,BELL,BILE,BILL,BLAE,ILEA,LEAL,

3-letter words (14 found)

AIL,ALB,ALE,ALL,BAE,BAL,BEL,ELL,ILL,LAB,LEA,LEI,LIB,LIE,

2-letter words (11 found)

AB,AE,AI,AL,BA,BE,BI,EA,EL,LA,LI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 45 words from alible according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of alible

alible

Etymology

First attested in 1650–1660: from Latin alibilis, from alō (“feed, nourish”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæ.lɪ.bəl/

Adjective

alible (comparative more alible, superlative most alible)

  1. Nourishing.
    • 1827: The North American Medical and Surgical Journal — “Analytical Reviews”, volume 3, January–April 1827, p338 (J. Dobson); quoting, as ARTICLE IX — A Treatise on Physiology applied to Pathology, by F. J. V. Broussais, M.D., &c. &c., translated from the French by John Bell, M.D., &c. & René La Roche, M.D., &c. (1826, H. C. Carey & I. Lea)
      “ […] Alible substances, of the most healthy kind, may then generate the same evils as would follow from a deficiency of food.”
    • 1847: William Harvey, Works: “On Generation” (EXERCISE THE SEVENTY-SECOND) — “Of the Primigenial moisture”, p514 (Sydenham Society)
      I say the ultimate aliment, called dew by the Arabians, with which all the parts of the body are bathed and moistened. For in the same way as this dew, by ulterior condensation and adhesion, becomes alible gluten and cambium, whence the parts of the body are constituted, so, mutatis mutandis, in the commencement of generation and nutrition, from gluten liquefied and rendered thinner is formed the nutritious dew : from the white of the egg is produced the colliquament under discussion, the radical moisture and primigenial dew.

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Anagrams

  • Belial, Biella, labile, liable

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