touchups needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
touchups is the highest-scoring word from touchups, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in touchups — and it is touchups itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in touchups produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is touchup, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling touchups turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are putsch and schtup, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chops, scout, shout, south, and touch. For points, the strongest plays are chops and pouch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in touchups produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chop, cops, cost, cups, cuts, hops, and host. For points, the strongest play is chop — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling touchups turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cup, cut, hop, hot, out, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are hop, hup, och, pho, pht, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in touchups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, to, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in touchups plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in touchups 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.
touchups 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.
touchups is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing touchups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is touchups, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from touchups 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 touchups produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.