Hidden inside rates sit aster, rates, resat and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aster, rates, resat and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from rates at 5 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in rates: six come from rearranging its letters, and rates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are aster, rates, resat, stare, tares, taser, and tears — 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 rates produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rest, rets, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, star, tare, tars, tase, tear, teas, tres, and tsar — 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 rates turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ers, est, eta, ras, rat, res, ret, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, 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 rates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, re, 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.
108 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in rates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rates 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.
rates 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 rates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for rates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
rates is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aster, rates, resat, stare, tares, taser, and tears, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rates 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 rates produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.