Hidden inside gate sit gate and geta, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gate and geta tie for the highest Scrabble score from gate at 5 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in gate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gate. For points, the strongest plays are gate and geta — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in gate 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.
gate 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 seven senses for gate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
gate is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gate and geta, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gate 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 gate produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.