53 words come out when you unscramble RITES, starting with RITES itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. 6 anagrams of RITES are on the page: REIST, RESIT, STIRE, TIERS, TIRES and TRIES, each 5 points. Among the shorter answers, 19 reach 4 points, SITE, REST and RISE among them. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from RITES split into 7 with 5 letters, 19 with 4, 17 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of RITES but one, change that one, and you get:
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What RITES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
RITES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RITES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 53) | 44 | 52 | 39 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
8 of the 53 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: REIST, STIRE, RITS, SEIR, STIE, TRIE, RIT and ST. 5 of the 53 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RESIT, TRES, EST, TES and TE. 1 of the 53 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
Each word below uses all the letters of RITES and one more.