markup needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PAKRUM, RUMPAK or PRUMAK and you get the same 6 letters as MARKUP: so the words from MARKUP listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
markup is the highest-scoring word from markup, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in markup — and it is markup itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in markup produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mark, park, and ramp. For points, the strongest plays are kapu, mark, murk, and park — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling markup turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arm, map, rap, and rum. For points, the strongest play is pak — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in markup plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in markup and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
markup 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 two senses for markup. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
markup is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing markup unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is markup, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from markup 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 markup produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.