openworks needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 242 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
openworks is the highest-scoring word from openworks, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 242 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in openworks — and it is openworks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling openworks produces exactly one eight-letter word: openwork. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in openworks produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is knowers, 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 openworks turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owners, person, pokers, powers, and spoken. For points, the strongest play is knower — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knows, opens, owner, poker, pokes, porns, and power. For points, the strongest plays are knows, woken, woker, wonks, and works — 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 openworks produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knew, know, news, nope, nose, ones, and oops. For points, the strongest plays are knew, know, skew, woke, woks, wonk, 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 openworks turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with new, nor, now, one, owe, own, and pen. 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 openworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, no, ok, on, or, ow, and so. 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.
Swap a single tile in openworks 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.
openworks 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 openworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
openworks is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing openworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is openworks, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from openworks 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 openworks produce 242 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.