Hidden inside elates sit elates, stelae, and teasel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elates, stelae, and teasel tie for the highest Scrabble score from elates at 6 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in elates: two come from rearranging its letters, and elates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elates, stelae, and teasel, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lease, least, steal, steel, tales, and tease. For points, the strongest plays are easel, elate, lease, least, leets, setae, setal, slate, sleet, stale, steal, steel, stela, stele, taels, tales, teals, tease, teels, telae, teles, and tesla — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elates produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east, eats, else, last, late, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are alee, ales, alts, ates, ease, east, eats, eels, else, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lees, leet, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seel, seta, slat, tael, tale, tase, teal, teas, teel, tees, tela, tele, and tels — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elates turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, let, sat, sea, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ate, ats, eat, eel, els, est, eta, las, lat, lea, lee, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tee, tel, and tes — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in elates 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.
elates 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for elates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
elates is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elates, stelae, and teasel, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elates 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 elates produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.