Hidden inside upturns sit turnups and upturns, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
turnups and upturns tie for the highest Scrabble score from upturns at 9 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in upturns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and upturns 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 turnups and upturns, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling upturns 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 prunus, turnup, and upturn, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upturns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with turns. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including punts, spurn and spurt.
Rearranging the letters in upturns produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuts, puts and runs. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including puts, spun and puns.
Unscrambling upturns turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nut, put, run, and sun. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including put, pst and pun.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in upturns plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in upturns 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.
upturns 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 upturns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
upturns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upturns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are turnups and upturns, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upturns 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 upturns produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.