Hidden inside mates sit mates, meats, satem and 3 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mates, meats, satem and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from mates at 7 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 five-letter words hiding in mates: five come from rearranging its letters, and mates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mates, meats, steam, and teams. For points, the strongest plays are mates, meats, satem, steam, tames, and teams — 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 mates produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, mate, meat, same, seat, and stem. For points, the strongest plays are maes, mast, mate, mats, meat, mesa, meta, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, and team — 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 mates turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, met, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ems, mae, mas, mat, mes, met, and tam — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in mates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mates 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.
mates 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 one sense for mates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
mates is one of six five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mates, meats, satem, steam, tames, and teams, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mates 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 mates produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.