Hidden inside egates is one standout: egesta, a six-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TASEEG, STEAGE or TGEASE and you get the same 6 letters as EGATES: so the words from EGATES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
EGATES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to EGESTA (noun), egested matter, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
egesta is the highest-scoring word from egates, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling egates produces exactly one six-letter word: egesta. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in egates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, stage, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are egest, gates, geest, geste, getas, and stage — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in egates produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ease, east, eats, gate, gets, and seat. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ages, gaes, gast, gate, gats, gees, gest, geta, gets, sage, stag, tags, and tegs — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling egates turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ate, eat, gas, gee, get, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gas, gat, gee, get, sag, seg, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
14 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in egates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in egates 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is egesta, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from egates 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 egates produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.