Hidden inside recover sit coverer and recover, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coverer and recover tie for the highest Scrabble score from recover at 12 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in recover: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recover itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recover. For points, the strongest plays are coverer and recover — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recover produces exactly one six-letter word: corvee. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recover. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: cover, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recover produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, ever, and over. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recover turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve. For points, the strongest plays are eve, rev, vee, and voe — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recover. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or. For points, the strongest plays are er, oe, or, and re — each worth 2 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 recover and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
recover 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 six senses for recover. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recover is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recover unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coverer and recover, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recover 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 recover produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.