Hidden inside spates sit pastes, spates, and stapes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pastes, spates, and stapes tie for the highest Scrabble score from spates at 8 points. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in spates: two come from rearranging its letters, and spates 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 pastes, spates, and stapes, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pasts, seats, steps, and tapes. For points, the strongest plays are apses, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peats, pests, septa, septs, spaes, spate, spats, steps, 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 spates produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, pass, past, peas, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, asps, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, psst, saps, seps, sept, spae, spas, 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 spates turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, ate, eat, pea, pet, and sat. 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 spates. 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.
Swap a single tile in spates 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.
spates 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 three senses for spates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
spates is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pastes, spates, and stapes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spates 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 spates produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.