recusancy needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recusancy is the highest-scoring word from recusancy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in recusancy — and it is recusancy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recusancy produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cancers. For points, the strongest play is carneys — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recusancy turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accuse and cancer. For points, the strongest plays are curacy and yuccas — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recusancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cause and cures. For points, the strongest plays are cycas and yucca — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in recusancy produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, cans and care. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including cays, cyan and racy.
Unscrambling recusancy turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are cay and cry — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recusancy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in recusancy 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.
recusancy 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 recusancy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
recusancy is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recusancy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is recusancy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from recusancy 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 recusancy produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.