Hidden inside recites sit cerites, recites, and tierces, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cerites, recites, and tierces tie for the highest Scrabble score from recites at 9 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in recites: two come from rearranging its letters, and recites itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cerites, recites, and tierces, each 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 recites turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with secret. For points, the strongest plays are cerise, cerite, certes, citers, erects, recite, recits, resect, secret, steric, terces, tierce, and trices — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, rices, steer, tires, trees, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are ceres, certs, cesti, cetes, cires, citer, cites, crest, cries, crits, erect, etics, recit, recti, rices, scree, terce, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recites produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, rest, rice, rise, site, stir, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cert, cete, cire, cist, cite, cris, crit, etic, ices, recs, rice, sect, sice, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recites turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, see, set, sir, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, et, is, it, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in recites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recites and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
recites 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 five senses for recites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
recites is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cerites, recites, and tierces, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recites 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 recites produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.