UPLAY is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. UPLAY 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 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept UPLAY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful UPLAY is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for UPLAY
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
uplaysChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How UPLAY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in UPLAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 130,708.
What does UPLAY mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To hoard or lay something by for later use.
Uplay joins up to lay in the sense of laying something up, meaning to store it away against future need. It sits in the same family as lay up and lay by, and old glossaries record it beside the plainer hoard and stash.
How UPLAY is used
Archaic; modern speech says hoard or lay by instead.
- The old farmer would uplay grain against a hard winter.
- To uplay coin under the floor was common before banks were trusted.
- She read uplay in an old glossary and had never once heard it spoken.
- He meant to uplay a little each week, though little ever remained.
- Uplay and hoard describe the same careful habit in different centuries.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of UPLAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of UPLAY
The 5 tiles of UPLAY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with UPLAY
2 longer words begin with UPLAY.
Shorter words from the letters in UPLAY
Common questions about UPLAY
- Is UPLAY valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and UPLAY is not in it.
- How many points is UPLAY worth?
- UPLAY is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does UPLAY mean?
- To hoard or lay something by for later use.
- What letters can be added to UPLAY?
- UPLAY takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of UPLAY:
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