Hidden inside clate sit cleat and eclat, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CLATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CLEAT and ECLAT.
cleat and eclat tie for the highest Scrabble score from clate at 7 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cleat and eclat, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in clate produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late and tale. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including alec, cate and celt.
Unscrambling clate turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and cat. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including act, cat and ace.
24 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in clate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in clate 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cleat and eclat, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clate 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 clate produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.