89 words come out when you unscramble OVATES, starting with OVATES itself: 9 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: AVOSET. 7 shorter words score 8, among them VOTES, STOVE and VESTA. It has 6 letters, 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from OVATES split into 2 with 6 letters, 9 with 5, 32 with 4, 33 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Of the 32 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OVATES, 14 score 7 points, the group's best. SAVE, EAST and VOTE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of OVATES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with OV · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with AVOSET (9 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts OVATES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVATES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 89) | 77 | 89 | 69 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
12 of the 89 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OVATES, EVOS, VAES, EVO, SAV, SOV, VAE, TAES, TOSE, EAS, EA and ST. 8 of the 89 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SEV, TOEAS, TASE, TOSA, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of OVATES spell the words below.