61 words come out when you unscramble FATES, starting with FATES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. FATES has 4 anagrams here, FEAST, FEATS, FESTA and FETAS, scoring 8 like FATES itself. The best shorter words score 7: 11 of them, FAST, SAFE and FATE included. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Words from FATES by length: 5 with 5 letters, 21 with 4, 23 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of FATES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with FA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
What FATES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. FATES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 61) | 53 | 61 | 44 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 61 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FESTA, FEST, FES, FE, TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE. 8 of the 61 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAFT, TEFS, FAE, TEF, TAES, EAS, EA and ST.
These 12 words take every letter of FATES plus a single extra one.