Hidden inside orates sit oaters, orates, and osetra, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oaters, orates, and osetra tie for the highest Scrabble score from orates at 6 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in orates: two come from rearranging its letters, and orates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oaters, orates, and osetra, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in orates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rates, roast, stare, store, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are arose, aster, oater, orate, rates, ratos, resat, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, sorta, stare, stoae, store, tares, taros, taser, tears, toeas, toras, tores, and torse — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in orates produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, rate, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are aero, ares, aros, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, eros, erst, etas, oars, oast, oats, ores, orts, osar, rase, rate, rato, rats, rest, rets, roes, rose, rota, rote, rots, sate, sear, seat, sera, seta, soar, sora, sore, sort, star, stoa, taos, tare, taro, tars, tase, tear, teas, toea, toes, tora, tore, tors, tosa, tres, and tsar — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling orates turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are are, aro, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, era, ers, est, eta, oar, oat, oes, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, ras, rat, res, ret, roe, rot, sae, sat, sea, ser, set, sot, tae, tao, tar, tas, tea, tes, toe, and tor — each worth 3 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 orates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, at, er, es, et, oe, or, os, re, 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.
32 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in orates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in orates and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
orates 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in orates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for orates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
orates is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing orates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oaters, orates, and osetra, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from orates 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 orates produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.