BACKUP unscrambled

B3A1C3K5U1P3

These 6 tiles spell 23 words, the longest running 6 letters, including 1 anagram that uses every letter.

Full anagrams of BACKUP

One word uses every one of your 6 tiles — the complete rearrangement most puzzles are asking for.

Longest first, alphabetical within each length. The small number is the word's tile score. Tap any word to unscramble it in turn.

Unlike the list above, these depend on the order you typed: each one is sitting in the spelling already, left to right, with nothing rearranged.

Add a single blank and the same rack reaches 359 more words, up to 7 letters. Here are the longest of them.

2 vowels and 4 consonants — a balanced rack, which is where the longest words usually come from.

Face value of the full rack: 16 points.

The C: Needs a partner. C rarely stands alone in short words; pair it with an H or a vowel and it opens up quickly.
The K: Comfortable at either end. KI and KA are valid two-letter words, which makes stray Ks easier to dump than they look.

Drop a tile and solve the rest. Each link runs the same search on the remaining letters.