Hidden inside tates sit state, taste, tates and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
state, taste, tates and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tates at 5 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in tates: four come from rearranging its letters, and tates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with state and taste. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including state, taste and tates.
Rearranging the letters in tates produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats and seat. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including east, eats and seat.
Unscrambling tates turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat and sat. For points, 16 words tie at 3 points, including ate, eat and sat.
23 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in tates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tates 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.
tates 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 tates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
tates is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are state, taste, tates, teats, and testa, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tates 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 tates produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.