Hidden inside dater sit dater, derat, rated and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dater, derat, rated and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dater at 6 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in dater: five come from rearranging its letters, and dater itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including trade, dater and derat.
Rearranging the letters in dater produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling dater 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 rad, red, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dater. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
42 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in dater plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dater 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.
dater 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 dater carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
dater is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dater unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dater, derat, rated, tared, trade, and tread, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dater 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 dater produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.