nonworking needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonworking is the highest-scoring word from nonworking, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in nonworking — and it is nonworking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nonworking produces 9 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: knowing and working, worth 15 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonworking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown and known. For points, the strongest play is known — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nonworking produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, iron and king. For points, the strongest play is gowk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nonworking turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, ink and nor. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nonworking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
nonworking 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nonworking is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nonworking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nonworking, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nonworking 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 nonworking produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.