Fretwork is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 137 anagrams from letters in fretwork (efkorrtw).
First recorded in 1595-1605; fret2 + work
Chippendale snatched his fretwork in his brackets and the angles of his chairs from the Chinese worker in ebony.
They positively ran wild on "Chinese taste," their fretwork and combination of Chinese and Gothic being perfectly extravagant.
No. 12, fretwork and carpentry class; games; letter writing.
The Salak's fretwork crater stood out entirely clear—his form a purple background to the picture gradually unfolding itself.
Chippendale, in his book, gives very elaborate directions for preparing the wood from which this fretwork carving was to be made.
No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit.
I turned, and scarlet through the festoons of gleaming white glowed the fretwork of a pagoda.
It contained a fretwork basket, stained brown and still rather sticky with varnish.
Mother is going to give me a set of fretwork tools so that I can put fancy tops to my frames, etc.
Soon even this fretwork was gone, and there was no sign of it to be seen.