working needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble IKWRONG, KNOWIRG or NIGWORK and you get the same 7 letters as WORKING: so the words from WORKING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
working is the highest-scoring word from working, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in working — and it is working itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling working produces exactly one six-letter word: rowing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in working. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown, owing, and wrong. For points, the strongest plays are grown, owing, wring, and wrong — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in working produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, iron and king. For points, the strongest play is gowk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling working turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, nor and now. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in working. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in working plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in working and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
working 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 six senses for working. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
working is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing working unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is working, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from working 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 working produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.