Hidden inside buildups sit buildups and upbuilds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buildups and upbuilds tie for the highest Scrabble score from buildups at 13 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in buildups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buildups itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buildups and upbuilds, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buildups produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are buildup and upbuild, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buildups produces exactly one six-letter word: builds. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buildups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with build. For points, the strongest plays are blips and pubis — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in buildups produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, buds, dibs, dips, lids, lips, and plus. For points, the strongest plays are blip and pubs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling buildups turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, bud, bus, dip, ids, lid, and lip. For points, the strongest play is pub — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buildups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are bi, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in buildups and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
buildups is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for buildups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
buildups is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buildups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buildups and upbuilds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buildups earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in buildups produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.