Hidden inside workload sit woodlark and workload, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
woodlark and workload tie for the highest Scrabble score from workload at 16 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in workload: one comes from rearranging its letters, and workload 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 woodlark and workload, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workload. If a familiar word is all you need, start with world. For points, the strongest plays are drawl, karoo, woald, and world — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in workload produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dark, door, dork, draw, load, look, and lord. 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 workload turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad, law, low, old, owl, raw, and rod. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workload. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, do, ok, or, and ow. 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 workload 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.
workload 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 workload. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
workload is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workload unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are woodlark and workload, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from workload 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 workload produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.