Hidden inside fate sit fate, feat, and feta, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TEFA or AFET and you get the same 4 letters as FATE: so the words from FATE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
fate, feat, and feta tie for the highest Scrabble score from fate at 7 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in fate: two come from rearranging its letters, and fate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fate. For points, the strongest plays are fate, feat, and feta — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fate and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
fate 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 fate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for fate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
fate is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fate, feat, and feta, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fate 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 fate produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.