220 words come out when you unscramble UPTEARS, starting with UPTEARS itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: PASTURE, UPRATES and UPSTARE. The best shorter words score 8: 17 of them, PUREST, TAPERS and ERUPTS included. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of UPTEARS in one turn: 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50), 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from UPTEARS by length: 4 with 7 letters, 18 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble UPTEARS come to 60, each scoring 7 points. PARTS, SUPER and SETUP are the familiar ones.
60 4-letter words from UPTEARS; 50 of them share the top score of 6. PART, EAST and ARTS are everyday picks.
Of the 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble UPTEARS, 24 score 5 points, the group's best. ARE, SET and ART are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of UPTEARS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with UP · ending in RS · all 7-letter words
UPTEARS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept UPTEARS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPTEARS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 220) | 185 | 220 | 178 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PEARST, PETARS, TRAPSE, UPREST, APERT, PATUS, PERST, PERTS, PETAR, PUERS, PURES, SPAER and 23 more, 35 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: URPS, PST, URP, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 7 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of UPTEARS plus a single extra one.