Hidden inside recognise sit congeries and recognise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 355 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
congeries and recognise tie for the highest Scrabble score from recognise at 12 points. The top 10 of 355 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in recognise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recognise itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are congeries and recognise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recognise. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coreigns, cosigner, erogenic, and generics, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recognise produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores, regions, scoring, and sincere. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including scoring, cognise and coignes.
Unscrambling recognise turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore and nieces. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including cering, coigne and coigns.
There are 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recognise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and cores. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including coign, conge and corgi.
Rearranging the letters in recognise produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recognise turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ego and gee. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recognise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recognise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recognise 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.
recognise 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for recognise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recognise is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recognise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are congeries and recognise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recognise 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 recognise produce 355 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.