Hidden inside workers sit reworks and workers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ROWRESK, RRSEKWO or SWORKRE and you get the same 7 letters as WORKERS: so the words from WORKERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
reworks and workers tie for the highest Scrabble score from workers at 14 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in workers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and workers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with workers. For points, the strongest plays are reworks and workers — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer, swore, works, and worse. For points, the strongest plays are woker and works — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in workers produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owes, rose and rows. For points, the strongest plays are skew, woke, woks, and work — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling workers turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with owe, row, and sew. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, ok and or. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in workers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in workers 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.
workers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in workers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for workers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
workers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reworks and workers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from workers 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 workers produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.