Unscramble SORTES and you have 79 words, SORTES itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. 8 anagrams of SORTES are on the page, ESTROS, RESTOS and ROSETS included; each is 6 points. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Counting the words from SORTES by length: 9 with 6 letters, 14 with 5, 25 with 4, 20 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of SORTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SO · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What SORTES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SORTES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SORTES itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 79) | 68 | 79 | 62 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
11 of the 79 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ESTROS, RESTOS, ESTRO, RESTO, ROSTS, TOSES, REOS, ROST, TOSE, REO and ST. 6 of the 79 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SORTES, ESTS, TRES, EST, TES and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of SORTES spell the words below.