Hidden inside recursions sit coinsurers and recursions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 461 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coinsurers and recursions tie for the highest Scrabble score from recursions at 12 points. The top 10 of 461 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in recursions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recursions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinsurers and recursions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recursions turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinsurer, coinsures, insources and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cirruses, coinsure, cornuses and 11 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recursions produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corners, courses and cousins. For points, 38 words tie at 9 points, including corners, courses and cousins.
Unscrambling recursions turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, course and cousin. For points, 59 words tie at 8 points, including corner, course and cousin.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and cores. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including coins, cones and cores.
Rearranging the letters in recursions produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, 39 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cone and cons.
Unscrambling recursions turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue and ice. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including con, cue and ice.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 18 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recursions plus one additional letter.
recursions 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for recursions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recursions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recursions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coinsurers and recursions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recursions 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 recursions produce 461 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.