UPHEAP is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. UPHEAP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept UPHEAP?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UPHEAP is to know. It scores 13 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UPHEAP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
upheapsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UPHEAP scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in UPHEAP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 2 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,380 thousand.
What does UPHEAP mean in Scrabble?
verb
To pile up or heap up.
Upheap means to gather things into a pile, with up stressing the rising mound that results. It is an uncommon, slightly old-fashioned verb, found chiefly in elevated prose. In computing the same word is also a term for moving an item upward in a heap data structure.
How UPHEAP is used
Rare; mostly literary, with a separate technical use in computing.
- Autumn winds upheap the leaves against the garden wall.
- The workers upheap the earth into a long bank.
- Waves upheap the shingle after every storm.
- Misfortunes seemed to upheap on him all at once.
- In a priority queue a new item is placed at the end and then allowed to upheap.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UPHEAP and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UPHEAP
4 longer words begin with UPHEAP.
Shorter words from the letters in UPHEAP
Common questions about UPHEAP
- Is UPHEAP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts UPHEAP, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is UPHEAP worth?
- UPHEAP is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UPHEAP mean?
- To pile up or heap up.
- What letters can be added to UPHEAP?
- UPHEAP takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of UPHEAP:
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