Unscramble TATES and you have 51 words, TATES itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. TATES has 5 anagrams here, ETATS, STATE, TASTE, TEATS and TESTA, scoring 5 like TATES itself. The best shorter words score 4: 19 of them, TEST, EAST and SEAT included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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By length, the words from TATES split into 6 with 5 letters, 19 with 4, 17 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TATES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TA · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
TATES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TATES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 51) | 45 | 51 | 40 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 6 of them: ETATS, ETAT, TAES, EAS, EA and ST. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: TASE, ATS, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of TATES and one more.