Unscramble NEEDLEWORK and you have 249 words, NEEDLEWORK itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. WEEKEND is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
N12E1E1D2L12E1W4O1R1K5
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NEEDLEWORK by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 8, 11 with 7, 35 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 9 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in NEEDLEWORK: KERNELED, 13 points.
WELKED and WORKED share the top score of 14 among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble NEEDLEWORK. WONDER, KERNEL and LENDER are the ones most people know.
The best of the 5-letter words from NEEDLEWORK is EWKED, 13 points; KNOWE and KREWE on 12 follow. WORLD, LOWER and OWNER are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words from NEEDLEWORK, 9 score 11 points, the group's best. WERE, WORK and KNOW are the ones most people know.
EWK, KOW and WOK are the top 3-letter words in NEEDLEWORK, 10 points each. NEW, NOW and OWN will look familiar.
Trade one tile of NEEDLEWORK for another and you can spell these 2 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with NE · ending in RK · all 10-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with WEEKEND (15 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NEEDLEWORK, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEEDLEWORK itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 249) | 180 | 249 | 169 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
69 of the 249 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: WELKED, EWKED, KEWLER, WROKEN, KNOWE, WEEKE, WELKE, WROKE, KEWL, OREWEED, WELK, DOWLNE and 57 more. 11 of the 249 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: KREWE, WOKER, LEWK, DROKE, EEEW, EEK, EELED, EEW, OK, EW and LOR.
With one more tile, the letters of NEEDLEWORK spell the words below.