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).
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.