Hidden inside krate is one standout: taker, a five-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EKART, KAETR or RTEAK and you get the same 5 letters as KRATE: so the words from KRATE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
KRATE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TAKER (noun), one that takes, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
taker is the highest-scoring word from krate, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling krate produces exactly one five-letter word: taker. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling krate turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are ark, kae, kat, and kea — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in krate 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 play from these letters is taker, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from krate 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 krate produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.