UPJET is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. UPJET is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UPJET?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UPJET is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UPJET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
upjetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UPJET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UPJET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| j | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does UPJET mean in Scrabble?
verb
rareliterary
To burst or rush upward in a sudden jet, as water, steam or flame shooting into the air.
Upjet is built from up and the ordinary verb jet, meaning to spurt out forcefully, so together the word paints a sudden, forceful rise rather than a slow climb. It is rare and mostly literary, used to give a vivid, compact picture of a geyser, a burst pipe or a flare of flame breaking upward. Modern writing more often reaches for plainer verbs such as spurt or surge, leaving upjet mostly to older or deliberately descriptive prose.
How UPJET is used
Rare and literary; used mainly in descriptive writing about water, flame or steam bursting upward.
- Steam would upjet from the vent every few minutes.
- The geyser was said to upjet high above the rocks.
- Flames began to upjet from the cracked pipe.
- Water can upjet suddenly when a burst main is struck.
- The fountain was built to upjet in timed bursts.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UPJET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with UPJET
3 longer words begin with UPJET.
Shorter words from the letters in UPJET
Common questions about UPJET
- Is UPJET valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UPJET is not in it.
- How many points is UPJET worth?
- UPJET is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UPJET mean?
- To burst or rush upward in a sudden jet, as water, steam or flame shooting into the air.
- What letters can be added to UPJET?
- UPJET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UPJET:
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