Hidden inside workdays sit dayworks and workdays, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dayworks and workdays tie for the highest Scrabble score from workdays at 19 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in workdays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and workdays 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 dayworks and workdays, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in workdays 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 daywork, skyward, and workday, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling workdays turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is drosky, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workdays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorks, draws, roads, sword, words, works, and yards. For points, the strongest plays are dawks and dorky — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in workdays produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dark, days, dork, draw, okay, road, and rods. For points, the strongest play is dawk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling workdays turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ask, day, dry, raw, rod, and row. For points, the strongest plays are kay, sky, wok, yak, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workdays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, aw, ay, do, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in workdays plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in workdays 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.
workdays 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 two senses for workdays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
workdays is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workdays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dayworks and workdays, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from workdays 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 workdays produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.