PLATE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PLATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PLATE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PLATE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PLATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How PLATE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PLATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about PLATE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 7 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does PLATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A flat, typically circular dish used for serving or eating food.
A plate holds food at the table, but the same word also names anything shaped like one: a thin sheet of metal bolted to a machine, a photographic plate coated with light-sensitive film, or the rubber slab a baseball batter stands beside. Jewellers and silversmiths once used plate to mean tableware made of solid gold or silver, and cheaper items coated with a thin layer of the same metal are still described as plated. Geologists borrowed the shape again for the vast rigid plates that make up the earth's crust and drift slowly against one another. Despite the range of meanings, all of them come back to the same picture, something flat, usually thin, and often round or rigid.
How PLATE is used
The everyday sense is the dinner plate; technical fields such as geology, photography and metalworking each keep a narrower sense of their own.
- He stacked a plate high with rice and vegetables.
- A steel plate was welded across the crack in the hull.
- The runner slid safely across home plate.
- Geologists mapped where two plates meet beneath the ocean floor.
- The jeweller polished the silver plate until it gleamed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PLATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PLATE
The 5 tiles of PLATE in a different order — 7 found.
Words starting with PLATE
Showing 24 of 37 words that begin with PLATE.
Words ending in PLATE
Showing 24 of 35 words that end in PLATE. Useful as a back hook: play PLATE onto a word already on the board.
Words with PLATE inside
Showing 24 of 49 words that contain PLATE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PLATE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PLATE
Showing 40 of 53. See all in the Word Finder
Common questions about PLATE
- Is PLATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PLATE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PLATE worth?
- PLATE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PLATE mean?
- A flat, typically circular dish used for serving or eating food.
- What letters can be added to PLATE?
- PLATE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PLATE:
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