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MATE

4 letters, 6 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What MATE Means

  1. noun: the officer below the master on a commercial ship
  2. noun: a fellow member of a team“it was his first start against his former teammates”
  3. verb: engage in sexual intercourse“Birds mate in the spring”
  4. verb: bring two objects, ideas, or people together“This fact is coupled to the other one”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

MATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as M3 A1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of MATE (4)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In MATE

20 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 (10)

2 letter words (10)

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