WORKWOMAN is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. WORKWOMAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept WORKWOMAN?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful WORKWOMAN is to know. It scores 21 from 9 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.9% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for WORKWOMAN
No single letter turns WORKWOMAN into another word.
How WORKWOMAN scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in WORKWOMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| w | 2 | 2 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so WORKWOMAN has to be built on the board across turns.
What does WORKWOMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A woman who does manual or industrial work, or one skilled in needlework.
Workwoman is the female counterpart of the older word workman and belongs largely to nineteenth-century writing about factories and workshops. Modern usage prefers gender-neutral terms, so the word survives mainly in historical contexts.
How WORKWOMAN is used
Dated; found in historical and literary texts.
- The mill employed every able workwoman in the village.
- She was a careful workwoman who never wasted thread.
- A skilled workwoman earned less than her male colleagues.
- The report described the lives of the workwoman and her family.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of WORKWOMAN and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in WORKWOMAN
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Common questions about WORKWOMAN
- Is WORKWOMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts WORKWOMAN, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is WORKWOMAN worth?
- WORKWOMAN is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does WORKWOMAN mean?
- A woman who does manual or industrial work, or one skilled in needlework.
- What letters can be added to WORKWOMAN?
- No single letter can be added to WORKWOMAN to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of WORKWOMAN:
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