recessive needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recessive is the highest-scoring word from recessive, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in recessive — and it is recessive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recessive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with receives and services. For points, the strongest plays are receives, scrieves, and services — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recessive produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with receive and service. For points, the strongest plays are receive, scrieve, scrives, and service — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recessive turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, recess, series, serves, and severe. For points, the strongest play is scrive — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recessive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, rises, and serve. For points, the strongest play is vices — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recessive produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ever, eves, ices, rice, rise, sees, and sirs. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recessive turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, ice, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, sev, vee, vie, and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recessive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, is, re, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recessive plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recessive 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.
recessive 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 three senses for recessive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
recessive is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recessive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is recessive, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from recessive 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 recessive produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.