Hidden inside recessed sit recessed and seceders, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recessed and seceders tie for the highest Scrabble score from recessed at 11 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in recessed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recessed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recessed and seceders, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recessed produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decrees, recedes, screeds and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recessed turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recess. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including ceders, cessed and creeds.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recessed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, and seeds. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including ceder, cedes and cered.
Rearranging the letters in recessed produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, seed, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cred — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recessed turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recessed. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in recessed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recessed and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
recessed is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for recessed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
recessed is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recessed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recessed and seceders, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recessed earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in recessed produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.