What OBLATES Means
OBLATES is a form of OBLATE, which means:
- noun: a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
- adjective: having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
OBLATES 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 O1 B3 L1 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 OBLATES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In OBLATES
255 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 (15)
5 letter words (63)
4 letter words (98)
3 letter words (57)
2 letter words (22)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.