Hidden inside uptakes sit takeups and uptakes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
takeups and uptakes tie for the highest Scrabble score from uptakes at 13 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in uptakes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and uptakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are takeups and uptakes, 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 uptakes turns up 3 six-letter words. 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uptakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pause, pukes, setup, skate, speak, steak, and takes. For points, the strongest plays are kapus, kaput, peaks, pukes, spake, and speak — 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 uptakes produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, east, eats, kept, past, peas, and pets. For points, the strongest plays are kapu, keps, kept, paks, peak, puke, and skep — 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 uptakes turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ask, ate, eat, pea, pet, and put. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in uptakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, up, and us. 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 uptakes 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.
uptakes 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 uptakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
uptakes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing uptakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are takeups and uptakes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from uptakes 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 uptakes produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.