Unscramble UPDATES and you have 186 words, UPDATES itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 7 of them, UPDATE, PAUSED and PASTED included. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of UPDATES in one turn: 60 in Scrabble (10 + 50), 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
ASUPTED unscrambles to UPDATES: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for pusated, upsetad, tapesud, utdpeas, asputed, pastude, saptude, deputas, pastued or spudate? They use the same letters as UPDATES, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from UPDATES by length: 1 with 7 letters, 10 with 6, 40 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Among 40 5-letter words made with UPDATES letters, the top score is 8, reached by 11. DATES, SETUP and TAPES are the familiar ones.
10 of 60 4-letter words from UPDATES tie at 7 points; none scores more. DATE, USED and EAST will look familiar.
Of the 57 3-letter words you get when you unscramble UPDATES, 6 score 6 points, the group's best. USE, SET and PUT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of UPDATES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with UP · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
UPDATES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept UPDATES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPDATES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 154 | 186 | 142 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EUPADS, STUPED, TAPUED, APTED, EUPAD, SEPAD, PATUS, SPEAT, SUDATE, TAPUS, APTS, PATU and 20 more, 32 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DEPS, DEP, TASED, PST, DAS, EDS, ATS, DA, EST, TES, UTE and TE, 12 in all.
These 9 words take every letter of UPDATES plus a single extra one.