Hidden inside workbooks sit bookworks and workbooks, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bookworks and workbooks tie for the highest Scrabble score from workbooks at 17 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in workbooks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and workbooks 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 bookworks and workbooks, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workbooks. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bookwork and workbook, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling workbooks produces exactly one six-letter word: brooks. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workbooks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with books and works. For points, the strongest play is works — 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 workbooks produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with book, boos, bows, robs, rows, and work. For points, the strongest plays are 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 workbooks turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bow, rob, row, and woo. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in workbooks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok, or, ow, and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 workbooks 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.
workbooks 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 workbooks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
workbooks is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing workbooks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bookworks and workbooks, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from workbooks 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 workbooks produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.