Upsets
noun
- Disturbance or disruption.
"My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
""collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."
- An upset stomach.
- An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
verb
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
"I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
"Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
"Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."
- To be upset or knocked over.
"The carriage upset when the horse bolted."
Total: 8 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Upsets"
Upsets is a 6-letter word that scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "upsets" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Upsets" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "upsets" is a low-scoring word.