Hidden inside erate sit arete and eater, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ETARE, TEERA or AEERT and you get the same 5 letters as ERATE: so the words from ERATE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ERATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARETE and EATER.
arete and eater tie for the highest Scrabble score from erate at 5 points. The top 10 of 30 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 erate. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arete and eater, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
38 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in erate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in erate 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 arete and eater, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erate 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 erate produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.