recording needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recording is the highest-scoring word from recording, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in recording — and it is recording itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recording. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ordering. For points, the strongest play is recoding — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recording produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignored. For points, the strongest plays are coigned, cording, cringed, and ergodic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recording turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, corner and ignore. For points, the strongest plays are ceding, codger, coding, and geodic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recording. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, diner and doing. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including cried, cider and coden.
Rearranging the letters in recording produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coin and cone. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and dice.
Unscrambling recording turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are cig, cod, cog, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recording. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recording plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recording 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.
recording 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 three senses for recording. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
recording is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recording unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is recording, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from recording 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 recording produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.