metalworks needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 816 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
metalworks is the highest-scoring word from metalworks, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 816 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in metalworks — and it is metalworks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling metalworks 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 metalwork, teamworks, and workmates, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalworks. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teamwork and workmate, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metalworks produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestro, markets, and warmest. For points, the strongest play is walkers — 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 metalworks turns up 106 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, almost, alters, lamest, lowers, lowest, and makers. For points, the strongest plays are tweaks, twerks, wakers, walker, wokest, and wreaks — 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 245 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, atoms, lakes, lamer, laser, and later. For points, the strongest plays are askew, awoke, lewks, tweak, twerk, waker, wakes, walks, warks, wekas, woker, works, and wreak — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in metalworks produces 272 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arms, arts, atom, lake, lame, and last. For points, the strongest plays are lewk, skew, wake, walk, wark, weak, weka, woke, woks, and work — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling metalworks turns up 126 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ask, ate, ear, and eat. 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in metalworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, aw, ew, me, and ok. 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.
metalworks 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 metalworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
metalworks is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing metalworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is metalworks, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from metalworks 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 metalworks produce 816 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 106 six-letter words, 245 five-letter words, 272 four-letter words, 126 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.