What USURPED Means
USURPED is a form of USURP, which means:
- verb: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession“He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town”
- verb: take the place of“gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
USURPED is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 S1 U1 R1 P3 E1 D2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of USURPED (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In USURPED
101 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 (7)
5 letter words (23)
4 letter words (34)
3 letter words (28)
2 letter words (9)
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