Hidden inside recomb sit comber and recomb, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comber and recomb tie for the highest Scrabble score from recomb at 12 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in recomb: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recomb itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are comber and recomb, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recomb. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is combe, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recomb produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, comb and come. For points, the strongest play is comb — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recomb turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mob and rob. For points, the strongest plays are cob, mob, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recomb plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recomb and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
recomb 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.
recomb is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recomb unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are comber and recomb, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recomb 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 recomb produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.