Unscramble LOCATE and you have 84 words, LOCATE itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 7 reach 7 points, TELCO, OCTAL and CLEAT among them. It has 6 letters, 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
OLETAC unscrambles to LOCATE: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for taceol, cotela, ctloae, colaet, cotale, oclate, coelta, teocla, coteal or olecat? They use the same letters as LOCATE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from LOCATE split into 1 with 6 letters, 7 with 5, 34 with 4, 30 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of LOCATE for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with LO · ending in TE · all 6-letter words
What LOCATE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LOCATE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCATE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 84) | 72 | 84 | 66 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 12 of them: CLOTE, COATE, LACET, ALCO, ATOC, CLAT, OCTA, TOC, LEAT, LOTE, ELT and EA. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: TELCO, CAL, ECO, LOC, TEC and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of LOCATE plus a single extra one.