Hidden inside slates sit leasts, slates, stales and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leasts, slates, stales and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from slates at 6 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in slates: five come from rearranging its letters, and slates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steals. For points, the strongest plays are leasts, slates, stales, steals, tassel, and teslas — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, least, sales, salts, seals, seats, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, lases, lasts, least, sales, salts, sates, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, tases, tasse, teals, and tesla — 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 slates produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, less, lets, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, leas, less, lest, lets, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, slat, tael, tale, tase, tass, teal, teas, tela, and tels — 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 slates turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, let, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ass, ate, ats, eat, els, ess, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel, and tes — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
33 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in slates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slates 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.
slates 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 seven senses for slates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
slates is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leasts, slates, stales, steals, tassel, and teslas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slates 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 slates produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.