SEMIWORKS is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. SEMIWORKS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SEMIWORKS?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SEMIWORKS is to know. It scores 18 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SEMIWORKS
No single letter turns SEMIWORKS into another word.
How SEMIWORKS scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in SEMIWORKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so SEMIWORKS has to be built on the board across turns.
What stands out about SEMIWORKS
- SEMIWORKS begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SEMIWORKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A small factory that makes a new product in limited quantities as a final trial before full production.
A semiworks sits between the laboratory bench and the full-scale plant. Engineers use it to find out whether a process still behaves when the batch grows a hundredfold. The plural-looking form is normally treated as a single thing.
How SEMIWORKS is used
Used in industrial chemistry and engineering when a process is tested at intermediate scale in a semiworks.
- The company built a semiworks to test the new dye process.
- Results from the semiworks convinced the board to fund a full plant.
- A semiworks is cheaper to run than a factory but gives realistic data.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SEMIWORKS and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SEMIWORKS
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Common questions about SEMIWORKS
- Is SEMIWORKS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SEMIWORKS, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SEMIWORKS worth?
- SEMIWORKS is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SEMIWORKS mean?
- A small factory that makes a new product in limited quantities as a final trial before full production.
- What letters can be added to SEMIWORKS?
- No single letter can be added to SEMIWORKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of SEMIWORKS:
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