Unscramble OTARIES and you have 228 words, OTARIES itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. OTARIES has 2 anagrams here, OARIEST and ROASTIE, scoring 7 like OTARIES itself. 21 shorter words score 6, among them RATIOS, SATIRE and TORIES. 7 letters: 4 vowels and 3 consonants. OTARIES as a single 7-tile play makes 57 in Scrabble, 7 plus the 50 bonus, and 42 in Words With Friends (7 + 35).
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By length, the words from OTARIES split into 3 with 7 letters, 21 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble OTARIES scores 5. STORE, RATES and RATIO are everyday picks.
All 60 of the 4-letter words from OTARIES score 4 points. RATE, EAST and ARTS are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble OTARIES come to 60, each scoring 3 points. ARE, ITS and SET are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of OTARIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with OT · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by AIREST, AORIST, ARIOSE, ARISTO, ARTSIE, OATERS, OATIER and ORATES (6 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: OTARIES is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTARIES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 228) | 178 | 227 | 159 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OARIEST, OTARIES, ROASTIE, ARTIES, ROATES, ROESTI, TIROES, AEROS, AESIR, ARETS, ARIOT, ARTIS and 37 more, 49 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ARTSIE, OATIER, OSETRA, REAIS, RESAT, RESIT, ROSTI, SORTA, TASER, ARIE, AROS, RAIS and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
With one more tile, the letters of OTARIES spell the words below.