Hidden inside piecework sit piecework and workpiece, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 20 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
piecework and workpiece tie for the highest Scrabble score from piecework at 20 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in piecework: one comes from rearranging its letters, and piecework itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are piecework and workpiece, each worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in piecework produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peckier, pickeer, and pockier, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling piecework turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier and recipe. For points, the strongest plays are kewpie and wicker — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piecework. If a familiar word is all you need, start with piece, poker and power. For points, the strongest plays are wreck and wrick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in piecework produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, core and crew. For points, the strongest play is wick — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling piecework turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, cow and ice. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piecework. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ok and or. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in piecework plus one additional letter.
piecework 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 piecework. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
piecework is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing piecework unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are piecework and workpiece, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from piecework 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 piecework produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.