Hidden inside upgrown sit grownup and upgrown, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grownup and upgrown tie for the highest Scrabble score from upgrown at 13 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in upgrown: one comes from rearranging its letters, and upgrown itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grownup. For points, the strongest plays are grownup and upgrown — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upgrown turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is upgrow, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upgrown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with group, grown, and wrong. For points, the strongest plays are grown, wrong, and wrung — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in upgrown produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, porn, pour, rung, upon, and worn. For points, the strongest play is prow — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upgrown turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, nor, now, our, own, pro, and row. For points, the strongest plays are pow and pwn — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upgrown. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no, on, or, ow, and up. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in upgrown plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in upgrown 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.
upgrown 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.
upgrown is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upgrown unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grownup and upgrown, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upgrown 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 upgrown produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.