Hidden inside pates sit paste, pates, peats and 4 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
paste, pates, peats and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from pates at 7 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 five-letter words hiding in pates: six come from rearranging its letters, and pates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tapes. For points, the strongest plays are paste, pates, peats, septa, spate, tapes, and tepas — 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 pates produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, past, peas, pets, and seat. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, pase, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, sept, spae, spat, step, tape, taps, and tepa — 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 pates turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, pea, pet, sat, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ape, apt, asp, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pst, sap, spa, and tap — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
33 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in pates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pates 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.
pates 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 two senses for pates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
pates is one of seven five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are paste, pates, peats, septa, spate, tapes, and tepas, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pates 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 pates produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.