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7-letter words with U as the 1st letter and P as the 5th letter

Only 15 seven-letter words have U as the 1st letter and P as the 5th letter, and UNHAPPY is the clear leader at 17 points.

15 wordsTop pick UNHAPPYHighest score UNHAPPY 17

1 of 15 are everyday words (7%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

With U in 1st place, I is the most common 5th letter (121 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 15 · most-used first

  • UNHAPPY17
  • USURPED10
  • USURPER9
  • UNHOPED13
  • UNWIPED13
  • UNROPED10
  • UNCAPED12
  • UNCAPES11
  • UNCOPED12
  • UNCOPES11
  • UNPAPER11
  • UNPOPED12
  • UNPOPES11
  • UNRIPER9
  • UNROPES9
All valid words 15

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • UNCAPED12
  • UNCAPES11
  • UNCOPED12
  • UNCOPES11
  • UNHAPPY17
  • UNHOPED13
  • UNPAPER11
  • UNPOPED12
  • UNPOPES11
  • UNRIPER9
  • UNROPED10
  • UNROPES9
  • UNWIPED13
  • USURPED10
  • USURPER9
Letters by positionIn 93% of these words the 6th letter is E.
2nd letter
  1. N87%
  2. S13%
3rd letter
  1. C27%
  2. R20%
  3. P20%
4th letter
  1. O47%
  2. A27%
  3. I13%
6th letter
  1. E93%
  2. P7%
7th letter
  1. D47%
  2. S27%
  3. R20%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
UNHAPPY1719All three
UNHOPED1315All three
UNWIPED1316Collins only
UNCAPED1216Collins only
UNCOPED1216Collins only
UNPOPED1216Collins only
UNCAPES1115Collins only
UNCOPES1115Collins only
UNPAPER1115Collins only
UNPOPES1115Collins only
USURPED1013All three
UNROPED1013All three

UNHAPPY is the one word you will see in real writing here. Ten of the other fourteen are the same trick repeated: a short verb like CAPE, COPE, POPE or ROPE wearing UN- in front and -ED or -ES behind. That repetition makes the list easy to memorise in one pass.

The 15 words in one place

  • UNHAPPY scores 17, then UNHOPED and UNWIPED at 13, and UNCAPED, UNCOPED and UNPOPED at 12.
  • Collins accepts all 15, NWL2023 accepts 7 and ENABLE accepts 6.
  • Last letters: D ends 7, S ends 4, R ends 3, Y ends 1.
  • UNHAPPY is the only word in the top 25,000 English words.
  • Average score: 11.3 points.

Which words are built from CAPE, COPE, POPE and ROPE?

Take the verbs CAPE, COPE, POPE and ROPE and add UN- to the front. With -ED you get UNCAPED, UNCOPED, UNPOPED and UNROPED, and with -ES you get UNCAPES, UNCOPES, UNPOPES and UNROPES. UNHOPED and UNWIPED follow the same shape with a different stem.

That is ten words from one construction, plus UNHAPPY, UNPAPER and UNRIPER on the UN- side. USURPED and USURPER are the only two that do not start with UN, which makes them easy to remember as a pair.

Which of the 15 will your game accept?

Six are safe in every list: UNHAPPY, UNHOPED, UNRIPER, UNROPED, USURPED and USURPER. UNROPES joins them in NWL2023 and Collins but not in ENABLE.

The other eight, including UNCAPED, UNCAPES, UNCOPED, UNPAPER and UNWIPED, are Collins-only. A seven-tile play collects the 50-point Scrabble bingo bonus, but only when the word is accepted, so check your game's word list before using one of them.

Quick tip

Tip

With a Y, an H and two Ps, UNHAPPY at 17 beats every other word here by four points. USURPED, seven points lower at 10, is the dependable fallback.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words start with U and have P as the fifth letter?
There are 15 in the tournament dictionaries, and Collins accepts every one. NWL2023 accepts 7 of them and ENABLE accepts 6, so most of the list works only under Collins rules.
What is the highest-scoring 7-letter U _ _ _ P _ _ word?
UNHAPPY scores 17 points, four more than UNHOPED and UNWIPED on 13. UNCAPED, UNCOPED and UNPOPED follow at 12, and the average across all 15 words is 11.3.
Which U _ _ _ P _ _ words end in D?
Seven end in D: UNCAPED, UNCOPED, UNPOPED, UNROPED, USURPED, UNHOPED and UNWIPED. S closes four words, and R closes three: UNRIPER, UNPAPER and USURPER, so those three endings cover 14 of the 15.

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