Hidden inside recurse sit rescuer and securer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RECURSE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RESCUER and SECURER.
rescuer and securer tie for the highest Scrabble score from recurse at 9 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in recurse produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with securer. For points, the strongest plays are rescuer and securer — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recurse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cures, curse, and surer. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including cures, curse and ceres.
Rearranging the letters in recurse produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, and sure. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including cues, cure and cees.
Unscrambling recurse turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, see, sue, and use. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including cue, cee and cru.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in recurse plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in recurse 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rescuer and securer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recurse 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 recurse produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.