Hidden inside outworks sit outworks and workouts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outworks and workouts tie for the highest Scrabble score from outworks at 15 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in outworks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and outworks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with workouts. For points, the strongest plays are outworks and workouts — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outworks produces 3 valid seven-letter words. 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 outworks turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kotows, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in outworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roots, tours, works, and worst. For points, the strongest plays are kotow and works — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in outworks produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, root and rows. For points, the strongest plays are woks and work — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling outworks turns up 26 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.
Swap a single tile in outworks and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
outworks 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 outworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
outworks is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing outworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outworks and workouts, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from outworks 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 outworks produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.