Unscramble LOTES and you have 45 words, LOTES itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. LOTES has 3 anagrams here, STOLE, TELOS and TOLES, scoring 5 like LOTES itself. The best shorter words score 4: 15 of them, LOST, LOTS and LOSE included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from LOTES split into 4 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 16 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of LOTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LO · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with STOLE, TELOS and TOLES (5 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
LOTES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOTES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 45) | 38 | 45 | 35 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
7 of the 45 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LOTES, ELTS, LOTE, TOSE, ELT, LOS and ST. 3 of the 45 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of LOTES spell the words below.