Hidden inside outwork sit outwork and workout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outwork and workout tie for the highest Scrabble score from outwork at 14 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in outwork: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outwork itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with workout. For points, the strongest plays are outwork and workout — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outwork produces exactly one six-letter word: outrow. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outwork. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kotow, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outwork produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with root, took, tour, and work. For points, the strongest play is work — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outwork turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, out and row. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in outwork plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in outwork and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
outwork 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 1-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 outwork. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
outwork is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outwork unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outwork and workout, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outwork 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 outwork produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.