Hidden inside recusals sit recusals and seculars, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recusals and seculars tie for the highest Scrabble score from recusals at 10 points. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in recusals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recusals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are recusals and seculars, each 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 recusals produces 13 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arcuses, carless, causers, cesuras, classer, clauses, recusal, saucers, scalers, scleras, secular, and sucrase, each 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 recusals turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, causes, clears, curses, lasers, sauces, and scales. For points, the strongest plays are caress, carles, carses, caules, causer, causes, cesura, clause, clears, crases, cruses, curses, cusser, escars, lacers, lucres, saucer, sauces, scaler, scales, scares, scaurs, sclera, seracs, sucres, and ulcers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recusals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cases, cause, class, clear, clues, and cruel. For points, the strongest plays are acres, alecs, arcus, ascus, cares, carle, carls, carse, cases, casus, cauls, cause, class, clear, clues, crass, cress, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, ecrus, escar, lacer, laces, luces, lucre, races, sauce, scale, scare, scars, scaur, serac, sucre, and ulcer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recusals produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, clue, cues, cure, and curl. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, alec, arcs, cals, care, carl, cars, case, caul, cels, cess, clue, crus, cues, cure, curl, curs, cuss, ecru, ecus, lace, lacs, luce, race, recs, sacs, scar, and secs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recusals turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass, car, cue, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, cal, car, cel, cru, cue, cur, ecu, lac, rec, sac, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recusals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, el, er, es, la, re, and us — 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 recusals and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
recusals 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 recusals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
recusals is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recusals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recusals and seculars, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recusals 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 recusals produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.