Hidden inside housework sit housework and workhouse, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
housework and workhouse tie for the highest Scrabble score from housework at 19 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in housework: one comes from rearranging its letters, and housework itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are housework and workhouse, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling housework produces exactly one eight-letter word: rowhouse. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling housework produces exactly one seven-letter word: hookers. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling housework turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hooker, kosher, and shower. For points, the strongest plays are hooker, husker, and kosher — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housework. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hooks, horse, hours, house, shook, swore, and whose. For points, the strongest play is howks — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in housework produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hook, hose, hour, ours, and owes. For points, the strongest play is howk — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling housework turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, how, oho, our, owe, row, and sew. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housework. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, ho, oh, ok, and or. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in housework plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in housework and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
housework 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in housework carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for housework. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
housework is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing housework unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are housework and workhouse, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from housework 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 housework produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.