checkups needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checkups is the highest-scoring word from checkups, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in checkups — and it is checkups itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkups produces exactly one seven-letter word: checkup. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checkups turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checks. For points, the strongest plays are checks and chucks — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checkups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check and pukes. For points, the strongest plays are check and chuck — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in checkups produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cups, heck, puke, push, such, and suck. For points, the strongest plays are heck and huck — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling checkups turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cup, she, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is kep — worth 9 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 checkups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, sh, uh, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 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 checkups 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.
checkups 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for checkups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
checkups is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checkups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checkups, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checkups 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 checkups produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.