Hidden inside blate sit blate, bleat, and table, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blate, bleat, and table tie for the highest Scrabble score from blate at 7 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in blate: two come from rearranging its letters, and blate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with table. For points, the strongest plays are blate, bleat, and table — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blate produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, beat and belt. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including able, beat and belt.
Unscrambling blate turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including bat, bet and lab.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in blate 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.
blate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for blate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
blate is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blate, bleat, and table, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blate 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 blate produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.