What does PICKUP mean?
- Pronunciation
- /ˈpɪˌkʌp/
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble score
- 16
- Words With Friends score
- 20
- How common
- Fairly common
Meaning
noun
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- a warrant to take someone into custody“put out a pickup on that man”
- anything with restorative powers“she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her”
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration“his car has a lot of pickup”
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places“garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays”
Definitions from Princeton WordNet 3.0.
Other forms
pickups17
Anagrams of PICKUP
No other word in the ENABLE list uses exactly these letters.
Words inside PICKUP
11 shorter words can be made from these letters. Here are the most useful.
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Questions
Is PICKUP a valid word in word games?
PICKUP is in the ENABLE word list, which many word games use, so it is very likely to be accepted. Check your game's own dictionary if a play is challenged.
How many points is PICKUP worth?
PICKUP is worth 16 points with Scrabble letter values and 20 with Words With Friends values, before any bonus squares.
What words can you make from PICKUP?
11 other words, including UP, CUP, PICK and PIC.