Hidden inside holdups sit holdups and upholds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holdups and upholds tie for the highest Scrabble score from holdups at 13 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in holdups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and holdups 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 holdups and upholds, 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 holdups turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with should. For points, the strongest plays are holdup and uphold — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holdups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holds. For points, the strongest plays are ouphs and plush — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in holdups produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hold, hops, loud, plus, push, shop, and sold. For points, the strongest plays are holp, hops, ouph, phos, posh, push, shop, and soph — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling holdups turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duh, hop, and old. For points, the strongest plays are hop, hup, pho, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holdups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho, oh, sh, so, uh, and up. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, 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 holdups 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.
holdups 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for holdups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
holdups is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holdups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holdups and upholds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holdups 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 holdups produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.