Hidden inside upsends sit sendups, suspend, and upsends, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sendups, suspend, and upsends tie for the highest Scrabble score from upsends at 10 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in upsends: two come from rearranging its letters, and upsends itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suspend. For points, the strongest plays are sendups, suspend, and upsends — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upsends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sends and spend. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including spend, dupes and pends.
Rearranging the letters in upsends produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ends, nude and pens. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including deps, dupe and dups.
Unscrambling upsends turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upsends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in upsends plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in upsends 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.
upsends 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
upsends is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upsends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sendups, suspend, and upsends, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upsends 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 upsends produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.