Hidden inside plates sit palest, palets, pastel and 6 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
palest, palets, pastel and 1 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from plates at 8 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 9 six-letter words hiding in plates: eight come from rearranging its letters, and plates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with plates. For points, the strongest plays are palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, and tepals — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaps, leapt, least, plate, slept, spelt, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are lapse, leaps, leapt, lepta, pales, palet, paste, pates, peals, peats, pelts, petal, plate, plats, pleas, pleat, salep, sepal, septa, slept, spale, spate, spelt, splat, tapes, tepal, 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 plates produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, laps, last, late, and leap. For points, the strongest plays are alps, apes, apse, laps, leap, lept, pale, pals, pase, past, pate, pats, peal, peas, peat, pelt, pest, pets, plat, plea, salp, sept, slap, 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 plates turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, lap, let, pal, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are alp, ape, apt, asp, lap, pal, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plates. 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.
30 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in plates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in plates 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.
plates 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 sixteen senses for plates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
plates is one of nine six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are palest, palets, pastel, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, and tepals, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from plates 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 plates produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 9 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.