Hidden inside workmates sit teamworks and workmates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 522 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teamworks and workmates tie for the highest Scrabble score from workmates at 18 points. The top 10 of 522 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in workmates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and workmates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teamworks and workmates, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workmates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are teamwork and workmate, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in workmates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maestro, markets, and warmest. For points, the strongest plays are kratoms, markets, and ostmark — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling workmates turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makers, market, master, rawest, smoker, stroke, and towers. For points, the strongest plays are tweaks, twerks, wakers, wokest, and wreaks — 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 148 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, maker, makes, marks, mates, meats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are askew, awoke, tweak, twerk, waker, wakes, warks, wekas, woker, works, and wreak — each 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 workmates produces 184 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts, atom, make, mark, mask, and mate. For points, the strongest plays are skew, wake, wark, weak, weka, woke, woks, 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 workmates turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, art, ask, ate, ear, and eat. 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, aw, ew, me, and ok. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in workmates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in workmates and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
workmates 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 workmates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
workmates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are teamworks and workmates, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from workmates 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 workmates produce 522 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 148 five-letter words, 184 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.