What CARATES Means
CARATES is a form of CARAT, which means:
- noun: a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg
- noun: the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CARATES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 R1 A1 T1 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CARATES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CARATES
179 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.
6 letter words (19)
5 letter words (50)
4 letter words (59)
3 letter words (38)
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.