Hidden inside recourse sit recourse and resource, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recourse and resource tie for the highest Scrabble score from recourse at 10 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in recourse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recourse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resource. For points, the strongest plays are recourse and resource — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recourse turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, rescue and secure. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including course, rescue and secure.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recourse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures and curse. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including cores, cures and curse.
Rearranging the letters in recourse produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues and cure. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including core, cues and cure.
Unscrambling recourse turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, our and see. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including cue, cee and cor.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in recourse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recourse 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.
recourse 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for recourse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
recourse is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recourse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recourse and resource, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recourse 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 recourse produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.