Hidden inside upticks sit stickup and upticks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stickup and upticks tie for the highest Scrabble score from upticks at 15 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in upticks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and upticks 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 stickup and upticks, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upticks turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is uptick, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upticks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with picks, stick, stuck, ticks, and tucks. For points, the strongest plays are picks and pucks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in upticks produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cups, cuts, kits, pick, pits, puts, and sick. For points, the strongest plays are pick and puck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upticks turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cup, cut, its, kit, pit, put, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are ick and kip — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upticks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, up, and us. For points, the strongest play is ki — 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 upticks 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.
upticks 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for upticks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
upticks is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upticks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stickup and upticks, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upticks 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 upticks produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.