What BATES Means
BATES is a form of BAT, which means:
- noun: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- noun: (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit“he was at bat when it happened”
- verb: strike with, or as if with a baseball bat“bat the ball”
- verb: wink briefly“bat one's eyelids”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BATES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 T1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of BATES (7)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BATES
54 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (21)
3 letter words (21)
2 letter words (12)
Longer Words Containing BATES
BATES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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