  Transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) spectra of charged particles at
mid-pseudorapidity in Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.44 TeV
measured with the ALICE apparatus at the Large Hadron Collider are reported.
The kinematic range $0.15 < p_{\rm T} < 50$ GeV/$c$ and $|\eta| < 0.8$ is
covered. Results are presented in nine classes of collision centrality in the
0-80% range. For comparison, a pp reference at the collision energy of
$\sqrt{s}$ = 5.44 TeV is obtained by interpolating between existing \pp
measurements at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 and 7 TeV. The nuclear modification factors
in central Xe-Xe collisions and Pb-Pb collisions at a similar center-of-mass
energy of $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV, and in addition at 2.76 TeV, at
analogous ranges of charged particle multiplicity density
$\left\langle\rm{d}N_{\rm ch}/\rm{d}\eta\right\rangle$ show a remarkable
similarity at $p_{\rm T}> 10$ GeV/$c$. The centrality dependence of the ratio
of the average transverse momentum $\left\langle p_{\rm{T}}\right\rangle$ in
Xe-Xe collisions over Pb-Pb collision at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 TeV is compared to
hydrodynamical model calculations.
