Hidden inside cutworks sit cutworks and scutwork, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cutworks and scutwork tie for the highest Scrabble score from cutworks at 17 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cutworks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cutworks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cutworks and scutwork, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cutworks produces exactly one seven-letter word: cutwork. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cutworks turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courts, struck, and trucks. For points, the strongest plays are struck, trocks, and trucks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cutworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with court, rocks and scout. For points, the strongest play is works — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cutworks produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, cows and cuts. For points, the strongest plays are woks and work — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cutworks turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cow, cut and our. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in cutworks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cutworks and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cutworks is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cutworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
cutworks is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cutworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cutworks and scutwork, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cutworks earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cutworks produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.