Unscramble TAPUS to get 47 words. TAPUS itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: PATUS, SPUTA and STUPA. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from TAPUS split into 4 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 20 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of TAPUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with TA · ending in US · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SPUTA and STUPA (7 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
TAPUS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAPUS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 47) | 38 | 47 | 36 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PATUS, TAPUS, APTS, PATU, STAP, TAPU, UPTA, SAUT and ST, 9 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PST and ATS, 2 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of TAPUS and one more.