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Is yup a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word yup is a Scrabble US word. The word yup is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

Y4U1P3

Is yup a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word yup is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

Y4U1P3

Is yup a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word yup is a Words With Friends word. The word yup is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Y3U2P4

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Valid words made from Yup

You can make 4 words from 'yup' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'yup'

PUY 8YUP 8

2 letters words from 'yup'

UP 4YU 5

All 3 letters words made out of yup

yup uyp ypu pyu upy puy

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word yup. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in yup.

Definitions and meaning of yup

yup

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jʌp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1

Noun

yup (plural yups)

  1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
    • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7 (page 147)
      But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...
    • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling (page 278)
      Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.
Synonyms
  • yep
Antonyms
  • (informal: a yes): nope

Interjection

yup

  1. (informal) Yes.
Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

  1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
    • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 448:
      Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]

Anagrams

  • Pyu, puy

Catacao

Noun

yup

  1. water

References

  • Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jʏp/
  • Hyphenation: yup
  • Rhymes: -ʏp

Noun

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

  1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)

Source: wiktionary.org
  • YUMP, to become air-borne in a vehicle.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)