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SKATE

5 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SKATE Means

  1. noun: sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
  2. noun: large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
  3. verb: move along on skates“The Dutch often skate along the canals in winter”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SKATE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 K5 A1 T1 E1.

Anagrams of SKATE (5)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SKATE

58 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 (24)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing SKATE

SKATE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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