recession needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recession is the highest-scoring word from recession, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in recession — and it is recession itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recession. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceresins, necroses, necrosis, and senecios, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recession produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with screens, seniors, and sincere. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including screens, sincere and censers.
Unscrambling recession turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, nieces and noises. For points, 33 words tie at 8 points, including crises, nieces and recess.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and cores. For points, 34 words tie at 7 points, including coins, cones and cores.
Rearranging the letters in recession produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cone and cons.
Unscrambling recession turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and nor. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including con, ice and cee.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
12 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recession plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recession and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
recession 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for recession. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
recession is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recession unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is recession, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from recession 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 recession produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.