Hidden inside gallates sit gallates, galletas, and tallages, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gallates, galletas, and tallages tie for the highest Scrabble score from gallates at 9 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in gallates: two come from rearranging its letters, and gallates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gallates, galletas, and tallages, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gallates produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gallate, galleta, gallets, and tallage, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling gallates turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agates, aglets, galeas and 3 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, least and legal. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including gates, legal and stage.
Rearranging the letters in gallates produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east and eats. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gals and gate.
Unscrambling gallates turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, all and ate. For points, 15 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and gas.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gallates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in gallates and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
gallates 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
gallates is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gallates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gallates, galletas, and tallages, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gallates 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 gallates produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.