Hidden inside cates sit caste, cates, cesta and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
caste, cates, cesta and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cates at 7 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in cates: three come from rearranging its letters, and cates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caste, cates, cesta, and taces, 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 cates produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, case, cast, cats, east, eats, and seat. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acts, case, cast, cate, cats, scat, sect, tace, and tecs — 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 cates turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate, cat, eat, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, cat, sac, sec, and tec — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, at, es, et, 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 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in cates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cates 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.
cates 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.
cates is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are caste, cates, cesta, and taces, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cates 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 cates produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.