AWORK is valid in Collins, not in North America — 12 points
It depends on the list you play by. AWORK is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 12 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept AWORK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful AWORK is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for AWORK
No single letter turns AWORK into another word.
How AWORK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in AWORK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What does AWORK mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaic
In action or engaged in a task; at work.
Awork joins the old prefix a- to work in the same pattern as asleep or afoot, marking a state of being busy rather than a place. Writers once used phrases like set awork to mean "put to work" or "set in motion," covering people, machines, and even feelings. The word dropped out of ordinary use as at work and to work took over its job, leaving awork mainly in older literature and quotations.
How AWORK is used
Archaic; met in older literature, especially in the phrase set awork, rather than in current speech.
- The foreman soon set the new hands awork in the yard.
- His words set every tongue in the village awork with gossip.
- The old mill stood awork from dawn until dusk.
- She kept her mind awork on the puzzle all evening.
- The captain set his crew awork before the storm arrived.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of AWORK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in AWORK
1 words end in AWORK. Useful as a back hook: play AWORK onto a word already on the board.
Words with AWORK inside
1 words contain AWORK in the middle. Words that start with AWORK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in AWORK
Common questions about AWORK
- Is AWORK valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and AWORK is not in it.
- How many points is AWORK worth?
- AWORK is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does AWORK mean?
- In action or engaged in a task; at work.
- What letters can be added to AWORK?
- No single letter can be added to AWORK to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of AWORK:
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