What UPKEEPS Means
UPKEEPS is a form of UPKEEP, which means:
- noun: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order“he wrote the manual on car care”
- noun: the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence“they were in want of sustenance”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
UPKEEPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 P3 K5 E1 E1 P3 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In UPKEEPS
49 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (1)
5 letter words (6)
4 letter words (20)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.