upraises needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 258 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
upraises is the highest-scoring word from upraises, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 258 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in upraises — and it is upraises itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in upraises produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praises. For points, the strongest plays are aspires, paresis, parises, pausers, praises, pussier, spireas, suspire, upraise, and uprises — each 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 upraises turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, pauses, praise, purses, raises, and spares. For points, the strongest plays are aspers, aspire, pareus, paries, parses, passer, pauser, pauses, pisser, praise, prases, prises, purses, repass, sepias, sirups, spares, sparse, spears, speirs, spiers, spirea, spires, sprues, supers, upases, and uprise — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upraises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, pairs, pause, press, purse, raise, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are apers, apres, apses, apsis, asper, aspis, pairs, paise, pares, pareu, paris, parse, pases, passe, pause, pears, peris, piers, prase, praus, presa, press, pries, prise, priss, puris, purse, puses, rapes, rasps, reaps, ripes, sepia, sipes, sirup, spaes, spare, spars, spear, speir, spier, spies, spire, sprue, spues, spurs, super, supes, and supra — 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 upraises produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, apes, ears, eras, pair, pass, and peas. For points, the strongest plays are aper, apes, apse, asps, pair, pare, pars, pase, pass, pear, peas, peri, pias, pier, pies, piss, prau, psis, pure, puri, purs, puss, rape, raps, rasp, reap, reps, ripe, rips, saps, seps, sipe, sips, spae, spar, spas, spue, spur, supe, sups, upas, and urps — 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 upraises turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ape, are, ass, ear, era, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are ape, asp, par, pas, pea, per, pes, pia, pie, pis, piu, psi, pur, pus, rap, rep, rip, sap, sip, spa, sup, ups, and urp — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upraises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, pi, 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 upraises 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.
upraises 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 one sense for upraises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
upraises is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upraises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is upraises, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from upraises 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 upraises produce 258 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.