Hidden inside underlap sit pendular, underlap, and uplander, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pendular, underlap, and uplander tie for the highest Scrabble score from underlap at 11 points. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in underlap: two come from rearranging its letters, and underlap 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 pendular, underlap, and uplander, 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 underlap produces 4 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 plunder and undrape, 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 underlap turns up 27 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drupel, larped, pander, parled, pedlar, planed, pruned, purled, repand, and upland, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learn, lured, nuder, plane, ruled, and under. For points, the strongest plays are drape, drupe, duper, duple, naped, padle, padre, paled, paned, pared, pedal, perdu, plead, prude, puled, purda, raped, upend, and urped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underlap produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal, dear, earn, land, lane, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are aped, dupe, pard, pend, and pled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling underlap turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ape, are, due, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dep, dup, pad, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, 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.
Swap a single tile in underlap 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.
underlap 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.
underlap is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underlap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pendular, underlap, and uplander, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underlap 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 underlap produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.