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UPPERCASES

10 letters, 16 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What UPPERCASES Means

UPPERCASES is a form of UPPERCASE, which means:

  1. noun: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis“printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters”
  2. adjective: relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case“uppercase letters: X and Y and Z etc.”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

UPPERCASES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as U1 P3 P3 E1 R1 C3 A1 S1 E1 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In UPPERCASES

510 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.

9 letter words (2)

8 letter words (8)

7 letter words (51)

6 letter words (109)

5 letter words (144)

4 letter words (119)

3 letter words (64)

2 letter words (13)

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