Hidden inside recorder sit recorder and rerecord, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recorder and rerecord tie for the highest Scrabble score from recorder at 11 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in recorder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recorder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recorder. For points, the strongest plays are recorder and rerecord — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recorder produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are orderer and reorder, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recorder turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with record. For points, the strongest plays are corder, recode, and record — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recorder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with error and order. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cered, coder, cored, credo, creed, and decor — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recorder produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, deer, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, coed, cord, cred, and deco — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recorder turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recorder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in recorder and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
recorder 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 four senses for recorder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
recorder is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recorder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recorder and rerecord, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recorder 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 recorder produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.