Hidden inside uptake sit takeup and uptake, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
takeup and uptake tie for the highest Scrabble score from uptake at 12 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in uptake: one comes from rearranging its letters, and uptake itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are takeup and uptake, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uptake. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kaput, 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 uptake produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kept, puke, take, and tape. For points, the strongest plays are kapu, kept, peak, and puke — 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 uptake turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, pea, pet, put, and tap. For points, the strongest plays are kep and pak — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uptake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and up. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 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 uptake and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
uptake 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 two senses for uptake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
uptake is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uptake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are takeup and uptake, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from uptake 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 uptake produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.