What LOCATES Means
LOCATES is a form of LOCATE, which means:
- verb: discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining“Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?”
- verb: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey“Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LOCATES 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 L1 O1 C3 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 LOCATES (4)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In LOCATES
245 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 (16)
5 letter words (65)
4 letter words (95)
3 letter words (52)
2 letter words (17)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.