Hidden inside pieceworks sit pieceworks and workpieces, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 21 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 436 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pieceworks and workpieces tie for the highest Scrabble score from pieceworks at 21 points. The top 10 of 436 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in pieceworks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pieceworks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pieceworks and workpieces, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pieceworks turns up 2 nine-letter words. 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.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pieceworks. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pickeers and speckier, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pieceworks produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers and recipes. For points, the strongest plays are kewpies and wickers — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pieceworks turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies and corpse. For points, the strongest plays are kewpie, wicker, wrecks, and wricks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pieceworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, crews and cries. For points, the strongest plays are wicks, wreck, and wrick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pieceworks produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owes, pees and pick. For points, the strongest play is wick — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pieceworks turns up 76 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pieceworks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, is and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
pieceworks 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 pieceworks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
pieceworks is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pieceworks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pieceworks and workpieces, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pieceworks 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 pieceworks produce 436 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.