Hidden inside upwellings sit upswelling and upwellings, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 328 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
upswelling and upwellings tie for the highest Scrabble score from upwellings at 16 points. The top 10 of 328 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in upwellings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and upwellings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are upswelling and upwellings, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upwellings turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is upwelling, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upwellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spelling and swelling. For points, the strongest play is swelling — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in upwellings produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pulling and selling. For points, the strongest plays are spewing and upswing — 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 upwellings turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, sewing, and single. For points, the strongest plays are swiple and upwell — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upwellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, lines, lungs, penis, piles, pills, and plugs. For points, the strongest plays are plews, swipe, and wipes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in upwellings produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lies, line, lips, lung, news, and pens. For points, the strongest plays are pews, plew, pwns, spew, welp, wipe, and wisp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling upwellings turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, ill, leg, lie, lip, new, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are pew and pwn — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in upwellings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, is, up, us, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
upwellings 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
upwellings is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing upwellings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are upswelling and upwellings, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from upwellings 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 upwellings produce 328 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.