workings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
workings is the highest-scoring word from workings, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in workings — and it is workings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in workings produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: working, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling workings turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins. For points, the strongest plays are rowing, sowing, wrings, and wrongs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown and grows. For points, the strongest play is gowks — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in workings produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, inks and iron. For points, the strongest play is gowk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling workings turns up 39 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in workings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in workings 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.
workings 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 two senses for workings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
workings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is workings, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from workings 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 workings produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.