Hidden inside underlaps sit underlaps and uplanders, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 569 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underlaps and uplanders tie for the highest Scrabble score from underlaps at 12 points. The top 10 of 569 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in underlaps: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underlaps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underlaps and uplanders, 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 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlaps. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pendular, plunders, spandrel, underlap, undrapes, 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 underlaps produces 26 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 drupels, panders, pedlars, plunder, slurped, spurned, undrape, and uplands, 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 underlaps turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with learns, nursed, paused, planes, spared, spread, and sundae. For points, the strongest plays are drapes, drupel, drupes, dupers, lapsed, larped, padles, padres, pander, parled, parsed, paused, pedals, pedlar, perdus, planed, pleads, prudes, pruned, pulsed, purdas, purled, pursed, rasped, repand, sendup, spader, spared, spread, upends, upland, and upsend — 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 170 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerds, nuder, nurse, pause, plane, plans, and purse. For points, the strongest plays are naped, padle, padre, paled, paned, pards, pared, pedal, pends, perdu, plead, prude, pseud, puled, purda, raped, drape, drupe, duper, dupes, duple, spade, spaed, spend, spued, 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 underlaps produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, apes, lads, land, lane, laps, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are aped, pads, pard, peds, pend, pled, puds, sped, spud, daps, deps, dupe, and dups — 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 underlaps turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, ape, are, due, ear, and end. 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlaps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, up, and us. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in underlaps plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in underlaps and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
underlaps 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.
underlaps is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underlaps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underlaps and uplanders, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underlaps 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 underlaps produce 569 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 170 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.