Hidden inside upases sit pauses and upases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pauses and upases tie for the highest Scrabble score from upases at 8 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in upases: one comes from rearranging its letters, and upases itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pauses. For points, the strongest plays are pauses and upases — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pause. For points, the strongest plays are apses, pases, passe, pause, puses, spaes, spues, and supes — 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 upases produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, pass, peas, seas, sues, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are apes, apse, asps, pase, pass, peas, puss, saps, seps, spae, spas, spue, supe, sups, and upas — 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 upases turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ass, pea, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, pas, pea, pes, pus, sap, spa, sup, and ups — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upases. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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.
Swap a single tile in upases 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.
upases 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.
upases is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upases unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pauses and upases, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upases 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 upases produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.