Unscramble GATER to get 54 words. GATER itself is a real word: 6 points on a Scrabble board, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: GRATE, GREAT, RETAG, TARGE and TERGA. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from GATER by length: 6 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 23 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of GATER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with GA · ending in ER · all 5-letter words
GATER first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GATER, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GATER itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 54) | 47 | 54 | 44 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: GARE, GART, GEAT, GERT, ARET, GER and EA. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: GATER, AREG and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of GATER plus a single extra one.