Hidden inside startups sit startups and upstarts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
startups and upstarts tie for the highest Scrabble score from startups at 10 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in startups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and startups itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are startups and upstarts, 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 startups produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are startup and upstart, 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 startups turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with starts, status, straps, and trusts. For points, the strongest plays are sprats, spurts, straps, and stupas — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in startups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with parts, pasts, stars, start, stats, strap, and traps. For points, the strongest plays are parts, pasts, prats, praus, pruta, putts, rasps, spars, spats, sprat, spurs, spurt, sputa, strap, stupa, supra, tarps, traps, trapt, and turps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in startups produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, part, pass, past, psst, puts, and raps. For points, the strongest plays are asps, pars, part, pass, past, pats, prat, prau, psst, purs, puss, puts, putt, raps, rapt, rasp, saps, spar, spas, spat, spur, sups, taps, tarp, trap, tups, upas, and urps — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling startups turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ass, put, rap, rat, sat, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are apt, asp, par, pas, pat, pst, pur, pus, put, rap, sap, spa, sup, tap, tup, ups, and urp — each worth 5 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 startups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in startups plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in startups 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.
startups 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 startups. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
startups is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing startups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are startups and upstarts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from startups 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 startups produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.