What LATE Means
- adjective: being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time“late evening”
- adjective: after the expected or usual time; delayed“a belated birthday card”
- adverb: later than usual or than expected“the train arrived late”
- adverb: to an advanced time“deep into the night”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 A1 T1 E1.
Anagrams of LATE (5)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In LATE
21 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.
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (9)
Longer Words Containing LATE
LATE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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