WORK is a valid Scrabble word — 11 points
Yes. WORK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WORK?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WORK is to know. It scores 11 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WORK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How WORK scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in WORK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What does WORK mean in Scrabble?
noun
Activity involving mental or physical effort.
Work is one of a small group of English words that kept the same form as noun and verb from Old English onwards. The physics sense, force multiplied by distance, was defined in 1826.
How WORK is used
Uncountable; countable for a piece of writing or art.
- The work took four months and was billed as six.
- The word work is noun and verb in the same form.
- They worked through the weekend and finished on Tuesday.
- Work in physics is force times distance.
- A work of that size needs two people and a lift.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WORK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with WORK
Showing 24 of 127 words that begin with WORK.
Words ending in WORK
Showing 24 of 175 words that end in WORK. Useful as a back hook: play WORK onto a word already on the board.
Words with WORK inside
Showing 24 of 320 words that contain WORK somewhere in the middle. Words that start with WORK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in WORK
Common questions about WORK
- Is WORK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WORK, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WORK worth?
- WORK is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WORK mean?
- Activity involving mental or physical effort.
- What letters can be added to WORK?
- WORK takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of WORK:
Open WORK in the Word Finder