Hidden inside linkups sit linkups and uplinks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
linkups and uplinks tie for the highest Scrabble score from linkups at 13 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in linkups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and linkups 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 linkups and uplinks, 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 linkups turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are linkup, plinks, plunks, and uplink, 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with links and punks. For points, the strongest plays are pinks, plink, plunk, pulik, pulks, punks, and spunk — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in linkups produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, link, lips, pink, pins, plus, and punk. For points, the strongest plays are kips, pink, pulk, punk, and skip — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling linkups turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lip, pin, sin, sip, ski, and sun. For points, the strongest play is kip — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in linkups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in linkups plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in linkups 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.
linkups 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 4-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 linkups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
linkups is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing linkups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are linkups and uplinks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from linkups 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 linkups produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.