Hidden inside teamwork sit teamwork and workmate, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teamwork and workmate tie for the highest Scrabble score from teamwork at 17 points. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in teamwork: one comes from rearranging its letters, and teamwork itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teamwork and workmate, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling teamwork turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with market. For points, the strongest plays are kratom and market — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teamwork. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maker, tower, water, and wrote. For points, the strongest plays are awoke, tweak, twerk, waker, woker, and wreak — 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 teamwork produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, make, mark, mate, meat, more, and rate. For points, the strongest plays are wake, wark, weak, weka, woke, 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 teamwork turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teamwork. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, aw, ew, me, ok, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each 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 teamwork 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.
teamwork 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 teamwork. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
teamwork is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teamwork unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are teamwork and workmate, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teamwork 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 teamwork produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.