55 words come out when you unscramble ROTES, starting with ROTES itself: 5 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. ROTES has 6 anagrams here, ESTRO, RESTO, ROSET, STORE, TORES and TORSE, scoring 5 like ROTES itself. The best shorter words score 4: 19 of them, SORT, REST and ROSE included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from ROTES split into 7 with 5 letters, 19 with 4, 18 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of ROTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with RO · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to ROTES:
ROTES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ROTES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROTES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 55) | 48 | 55 | 44 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ESTRO, RESTO, REOS, ROST, TOSE, REO and ST, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TRES, EST, TES and TE, 4 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of ROTES and one more.