karate needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
karate is the highest-scoring word from karate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in karate — and it is karate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in karate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are karat and taker, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in karate produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with area, rate, take, and tear. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including take, arak and kart.
Unscrambling karate turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ark, kae, kat, and kea — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in karate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in karate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
karate 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in karate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for karate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
karate is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing karate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is karate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from karate 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 karate produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.