Hidden inside locates sit lactose, locates, and talcose, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lactose, locates, and talcose tie for the highest Scrabble score from locates at 9 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in locates: two come from rearranging its letters, and locates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locates. For points, the strongest plays are lactose, locates, and talcose — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locates turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with castle, closet, and locate. For points, the strongest plays are castle, cleats, closet, costae, costal, eclats, locate, solace, and telcos — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, coast, coats, colas, least, scale, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are alecs, ascot, calos, caste, cates, celts, cesta, clast, cleat, close, clots, coals, coast, coats, colas, coles, colts, coset, costa, cotes, eclat, escot, laces, octal, scale, socle, taces, tacos, talcs, and telco — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locates produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, case, cast, cats, coat, and cola. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acts, alec, calo, cals, case, cast, cate, cats, cels, celt, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, cols, colt, cost, cote, cots, ecos, lace, lacs, loca, locs, ocas, scat, scot, sect, soca, tace, taco, talc, and tecs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locates turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, let, lot, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, cal, cat, cel, col, cos, cot, eco, lac, loc, oca, sac, sec, soc, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, lo, oe, os, so, ta, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in locates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
locates 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for locates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
locates is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lactose, locates, and talcose, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locates 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 locates produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.