SUNUP is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SUNUP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SUNUP?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SUNUP is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SUNUP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
sunupsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SUNUP scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SUNUP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does SUNUP mean in Scrabble?
noun
North Americaninformal
Sunrise; the moment in the early morning when the sun rises above the horizon and full daylight begins.
Sunup names the same moment as sunrise, but the word carries a more casual, rural flavour, common in expressions such as working from sunup to sundown to describe a full day's labour outdoors. Farmers, ranchers and outdoor workers in North America use sunup naturally in everyday speech, while more formal writing tends to prefer sunrise or daybreak instead. The matching term sundown covers the opposite end of the day, and together the pair frames a day by the sun's position rather than by the clock, a habit that predates widely available watches and precise schedules. Neither sunup nor sundown gives an exact time, since both shift with the seasons and with how far north or south a place lies.
How SUNUP is used
Informal and mainly North American, common in everyday speech about farm or outdoor work, especially in the phrase from sunup to sundown.
- The ranch hands were up and working well before sunup.
- They worked the fields from sunup to sundown during harvest.
- A thin mist still hung over the valley at sunup.
- He liked to go fishing right at sunup, before the heat set in.
- By sunup, the whole camp was already packing up to leave.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SUNUP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SUNUP
1 longer words begin with SUNUP.
Shorter words from the letters in SUNUP
Common questions about SUNUP
- Is SUNUP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SUNUP, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SUNUP worth?
- SUNUP is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SUNUP mean?
- Sunrise; the moment in the early morning when the sun rises above the horizon and full daylight begins.
- What letters can be added to SUNUP?
- SUNUP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SUNUP:
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