25 words come out when you unscramble WATE, starting with WATE itself: 7 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. WATE has 2 anagrams here, TWAE and WETA, scoring 7 like WATE itself. 8 shorter words score 6, among them WET, AWE and TAW. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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By length, the words from WATE split into 3 with 4 letters, 13 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of WATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with WA · ending in TE · all 4-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; TWAE and WETA (7 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: WATE is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 25) | 22 | 25 | 19 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 3 of them: WATE, EWT and EA. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: WETA, EW and TE.
With one more tile, the letters of WATE spell the words below.