recurvate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recurvate is the highest-scoring word from recurvate, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in recurvate — and it is recurvate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recurvate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creature. For points, the strongest play is verrucae — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recurvate produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caterer. For points, the strongest plays are recurve and verruca — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recurvate turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with career and create. For points, the strongest plays are carver, craver, and curvet — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recurvate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carve, cater and cuter. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including carve, caver and crave.
Rearranging the letters in recurvate produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cave. For points, the strongest play is cave — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recurvate turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are and art. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in recurvate 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.
recurvate is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for recurvate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
recurvate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recurvate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is recurvate, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from recurvate 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 recurvate produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.