Hidden inside foldups sit foldups and upfolds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 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.
foldups and upfolds tie for the highest Scrabble score from foldups at 13 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 foldups: one comes from rearranging its letters, and foldups 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 foldups and upfolds, 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 foldups 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 foldup and upfold, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in foldups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folds and fouls. For points, the strongest plays are flops and poufs — 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 foldups produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flus, fold, foul, loud, plus, sold, and soul. For points, the strongest plays are flop, fops, and pouf — 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 foldups turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flu and old. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 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 foldups. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, of, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest play is of — worth 5 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 foldups 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.
foldups is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
foldups is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foldups unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foldups and upfolds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foldups 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 foldups produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.