What GATES Means
GATES is a form of GAT, which means:
- noun: a gangster's pistol
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GATES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 A1 T1 E1 S1.
Anagrams of GATES (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GATES
56 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 (22)
3 letter words (24)
2 letter words (10)
Longer Words Containing GATES
GATES appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ABLEGATESABNEGATESABROGATESAGATESAGGREGATESALGATESALLIGATESARROGATESCASTIGATESCOLLIGATESCONJUGATESCORRUGATESDELEGATESDEROGATESDIVAGATESDIVULGATESDOGATESELONGATESENDGATESERGATESEVULGATESEXPURGATESFATIGATESFERTIGATESFLOODGATESFLUXGATESFRIGATESFUMIGATESFUSTIGATESHEADGATESINDAGATESINGATESINSTIGATESIRRIGATESLAEVIGATESLEGATESLEGATESHIPLEVIGATESLICHGATESLIFTGATES
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.