updates needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SAPUTED, STAPUDE or APESTUD and you get the same 7 letters as UPDATES: so the words from UPDATES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
updates is the highest-scoring word from updates, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in updates — and it is updates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling updates turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paused and update. For points, the strongest plays are adepts, pasted, paused, and update — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in updates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, pause and setup. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including taped, adept and dupes.
Rearranging the letters in updates produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date and dust. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including pads, aped and daps.
Unscrambling updates turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and ate. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including pad, dap and dep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in updates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in updates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in updates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
updates 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 five senses for updates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
updates is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing updates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is updates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from updates 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 updates produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.