What UPTAKES Means
UPTAKES is a form of UPTAKE, which means:
- noun: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- noun: a process of taking up or using up or consuming“they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
UPTAKES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 P3 T1 A1 K5 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of UPTAKES (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In UPTAKES
182 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 (5)
5 letter words (34)
4 letter words (72)
3 letter words (56)
2 letter words (15)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.