Hidden inside dayworks sit dayworks and workdays, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dayworks and workdays tie for the highest Scrabble score from dayworks at 19 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dayworks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dayworks 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 dayworks and workdays, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dayworks produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are daywork, skyward, and workday, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dayworks turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is drosky, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dayworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorks, draws, roads, sword, words, works, and yards. For points, the strongest plays are dawks and dorky — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dayworks produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dark, days, dork, draw, okay, road, and rods. For points, the strongest play is dawk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dayworks turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ask, day, dry, raw, rod, and row. For points, the strongest plays are kay, sky, wok, yak, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dayworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ay, do, ok, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in dayworks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dayworks 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.
dayworks 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
dayworks is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dayworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dayworks and workdays, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dayworks 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 dayworks produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.