Unscramble UPCURVES and you have 101 words, UPCURVES itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is UPCURVE, 14 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from UPCURVES split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 6, 22 with 5, 37 with 4, 29 with 3 and 7 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words made with UPCURVES letters: UPCURVE, 14 points.
PERV tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble UPCURVES at 9 points; next come CEPS and CUPS on 8. USER, SURE and PURE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of UPCURVES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with UP · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What UPCURVES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. UPCURVES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPCURVES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 101) | 81 | 101 | 71 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRUVES, CRUVE, CREPS, PUCER, CRUES, PUERS, PURES, SPUER, VERS, CRUE, PUER, RUCS and 8 more, 20 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PERVS, PERCS, PERV, ERUVS, PERC, ERUV, SEV, URPS, CRU and URP, 10 in all.