Hidden inside bates sit abets, baste, bates and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abets, baste, bates and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from bates at 7 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in bates: six come from rearranging its letters, and bates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast and beats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, betas, and tabes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bates produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with base, bats, beat, best, bets, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are abet, baes, base, bast, bate, bats, beat, best, beta, bets, sabe, stab, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bates turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat, bet, eat, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bae, bas, bat, bes, bet, sab, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bates and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
bates is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bates is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abets, baste, bates, beast, beats, betas, and tabes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bates earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in bates produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.