What CATES Means
CATES is a form of CAT, which means:
- noun: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- noun: an informal term for a youth or man“a nice guy”
- verb: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
- verb: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth“After drinking too much, the students vomited”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CATES 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 C3 A1 T1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of CATES (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CATES
49 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 (20)
3 letter words (20)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing CATES
CATES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ABDICATESACATESADVOCATESAFFRICATESAGUACATESALLOCATESALTERCATESAPRICATESAUSPICATESBIFURCATESBUSTICATESCARUCATESCLERICATESCOLLOCATESCOLOCATESCONVOCATESCORUSCATESDEDICATESDEFAECATESDEFALCATESDEFECATESDELICATESDEMARCATESDEPRECATESDESICCATESDISLOCATESDUPLICATESEDUCATESEMBROCATESEMICATESERADICATESEVOCATESEXPISCATESEXPLICATESEXSICCATESEXTRICATESFABRICATESFORMICATESFORNICATESFURCATES
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.