Hidden inside foldups sit foldups and upfolds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
foldups and upfolds tie for the highest Scrabble score from foldups at 13 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in foldups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and foldups itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foldups and upfolds, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foldups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folds and fouls. For points, the strongest plays are flops and poufs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in foldups produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flus, fold and foul. For points, the strongest plays are flop, fops, and pouf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling foldups turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flu and old. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in foldups and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
foldups is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
foldups is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foldups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foldups and upfolds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foldups 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 foldups produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.