Hidden inside uprisings sit suspiring and uprisings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
suspiring and uprisings tie for the highest Scrabble score from uprisings at 12 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in uprisings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and uprisings 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 suspiring and uprisings, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uprisings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are prissing, siruping, and uprising, 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 uprisings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with springs. For points, the strongest plays are pissing, prising, pursing, spiring, and springs — 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 uprisings turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising and spring. For points, the strongest plays are pignus, riping, siping, sprigs, spring, sprugs, sprung, spuing, and urping — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uprisings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, rings, ruins, signs, sings, spins, and suing. For points, the strongest plays are grips, piing, pings, prigs, pungs, sprig, and sprug — 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 uprisings produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, guns, pigs, pins, rigs, ring, and rips. For points, the strongest plays are gips, grip, pigs, ping, prig, pugs, and pung — 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 uprisings turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, pig, pin, rig, rip, rug, and run. For points, the strongest plays are gip, pig, and pug — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uprisings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in uprisings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in uprisings 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.
uprisings 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for uprisings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
uprisings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uprisings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are suspiring and uprisings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from uprisings 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 uprisings produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.