Hidden inside houseworks sit houseworks and workhouses, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 244 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
houseworks and workhouses tie for the highest Scrabble score from houseworks at 20 points. The top 10 of 244 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in houseworks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and houseworks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are houseworks and workhouses, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling houseworks turns up 3 nine-letter words. 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 houseworks 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.
Rearranging the letters in houseworks produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hookers and showers. For points, the strongest plays are hookers, huskers, and koshers — each 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 houseworks turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hooker, horses, houses, kosher, rushes, and shower. For points, the strongest plays are hooker, husker, kosher, and shooks — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in houseworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hooks, horse, hoses, hours, house, roses, and shoes. 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 houseworks produces 76 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 houseworks turns up 47 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 houseworks. 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.
houseworks 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 houseworks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for houseworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
houseworks is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing houseworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are houseworks and workhouses, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from houseworks 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 houseworks produce 244 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.