Hidden inside recrosses sit recrosses and sorceress, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recrosses and sorceress tie for the highest Scrabble score from recrosses at 11 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in recrosses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recrosses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recrosses and sorceress, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recrosses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crossers and rescores, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recrosses produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crosses. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including crosses, cresses and crosser.
Unscrambling recrosses turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recess and scores. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including recess, scores and cesses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recrosses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cross and roses. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including cores, cross and score.
Rearranging the letters in recrosses produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, rose, sees, and sore. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including core, cees and cere.
Unscrambling recrosses turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including cee, cor and cos.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in recrosses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recrosses 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.
recrosses 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.
recrosses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recrosses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recrosses and sorceress, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recrosses 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 recrosses produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.