Unscramble ERGATES and you have 212 words, ERGATES itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. ERGATES has 1 anagram here, RESTAGE, scoring 8 like ERGATES itself. The best shorter words score 7: 20 of them, AGREES, GREASE and GREATS included. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of ERGATES at once for 58 in Scrabble (8 + 50) or 44 in Words With Friends (9 + 35).
Looking for gearest, gratese, regates, segrate, ageters, eagerst, gateers, gateser, gaester or greetsa? They use the same letters as ERGATES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ERGATES split into 2 with 7 letters, 29 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 47 with 3 and 14 with 2.
29 6-letter words in ERGATES; 20 of them share the top score of 7. AGREES, GREASE and TEASER are everyday picks.
Of the 60 5-letter words from ERGATES, 35 score 6 points, the group's best. GREAT, RATES and STAGE are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ERGATES; 31 of them share the top score of 5. RATE, EAST and STAR are everyday picks.
Among 47 3-letter words you get when you unscramble ERGATES, the top score is 4, reached by 16. ARE, SEE and GET are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ERGATES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with ER · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
ERGATES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ERGATES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERGATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 212) | 175 | 212 | 164 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ETAGES, GEARES, GRASTE, REGEST, ETAGE, GARES, GEARE, GEATS, GERES, GRESE, REATES, SAETER and 25 more, 37 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GATERS, GATER, AREG, EASER, RESAT, TASER, AGS, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 11 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of ERGATES spell the words below.