Hidden inside succor sit crocus, occurs, and succor, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crocus, occurs, and succor tie for the highest Scrabble score from succor at 10 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in succor: two come from rearranging its letters, and succor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with occurs. For points, the strongest plays are crocus, occurs, and succor — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in succor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in succor and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
succor 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 two senses for succor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
succor is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing succor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crocus, occurs, and succor, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from succor 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 succor produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.