Unscramble REATE and you have 35 words, REATE itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. REATE has 2 anagrams here, ARETE and EATER, scoring 5 like REATE itself. The best shorter words score 4: 7 of them, RATE, TREE and TEAR included. The 5 letters split into 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Counting the words from REATE by length: 3 with 5 letters, 7 with 4, 15 with 3 and 10 with 2.
These 6 words have the length of REATE, with one letter different:
More 5-letter words: starting with RE · ending in TE · all 5-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ARETE and EATER (5 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts REATE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| REATE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 35) | 30 | 35 | 29 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 5 of them: REATE, ARET, TEER, EA and EE. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: TE.
These 12 words take every letter of REATE plus a single extra one.