Unscramble Your Letters
Every English word that uses exactly these letters, straight from our dictionary.
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What These Words Mean
LAY UP verb
disable or confine, as with an illness
LAY-UP noun
a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
LAYUP noun
A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play. - a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
Solving Jumble Words by Hand
Before reaching for a solver, try these anagram tricks: separate the vowels from the consonants, look for common endings such as -ING, -ED and -LY, test frequent letter pairs (TH, CH, ST, ER), and write the letters in a circle so your brain stops seeing the scrambled order. Most five-letter Jumble words fall to these techniques, and daily practice makes you dramatically faster.
Once you have all four words, the circled letters feed the final cartoon punchline. Enter those circled letters above and the solver will find multi-word answers too. For a full walkthrough see how to play Daily Jumble, or check today's answers.