Hidden inside worker sit rework and worker, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rework and worker tie for the highest Scrabble score from worker at 13 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in worker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and worker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with worker. For points, the strongest plays are rework and worker — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worker. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is woker, 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 worker produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with woke, wore, and work. For points, the strongest plays are 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 worker turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe and row. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worker. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ok, or, ow, and we. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 worker and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
worker 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in worker carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for worker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
worker is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rework and worker, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worker 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 worker produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.