STUPE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. STUPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept STUPE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful STUPE is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for STUPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How STUPE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in STUPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 32,677.
What stands out about STUPE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does STUPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalarchaic
A piece of cloth or cotton wrung out in hot water, sometimes with added medicine, and applied warm to the skin to relieve pain or swelling.
A stupe works through simple heat and moisture, easing sore muscles, cramps or a stiff joint by relaxing the tissue underneath and improving local blood flow, much like a modern hot compress. Nurses and home carers once prepared a stupe by wringing a cloth from very hot water, sometimes adding turpentine, mustard or another mild irritant to increase the warming effect before laying it against the skin. As a verb, to stupe a patient means to apply this kind of hot compress, a treatment common in nursing manuals well into the twentieth century. In older, now largely obsolete slang, stupe also served as a blunt insult for a slow-witted person, a sense unrelated to the medical compress beyond a shared spelling.
How STUPE is used
A dated medical and nursing term for a hot moist compress, now mostly replaced in everyday speech by phrases such as hot compress or warm pack.
- The nurse applied a warm stupe to ease his aching shoulder.
- Grandmother swore by a mustard stupe for a bad chest cold.
- The old nursing manual explained exactly how to prepare a stupe.
- He was stuped twice a day until the swelling finally went down.
- A hot stupe brought some relief to her cramped leg.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of STUPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of STUPE
The 5 tiles of STUPE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with STUPE
20 longer words begin with STUPE.
Shorter words from the letters in STUPE
Common questions about STUPE
- Is STUPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts STUPE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is STUPE worth?
- STUPE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does STUPE mean?
- A piece of cloth or cotton wrung out in hot water, sometimes with added medicine, and applied warm to the skin to relieve pain or swelling.
- What letters can be added to STUPE?
- STUPE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of STUPE:
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