Hidden inside recommends sit commenders and recommends, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 387 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
commenders and recommends tie for the highest Scrabble score from recommends at 17 points. The top 10 of 387 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in recommends: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recommends itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recommends. For points, the strongest plays are commenders and recommends — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recommends turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recommend. For points, the strongest plays are commender and recommend — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recommends. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is commends, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recommends produces 18 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is commend, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recommends turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, modern, scored, screen, and second. For points, the strongest play is modems — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recommends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, comes, cones, cords, cores, corns, and deers. For points, the strongest play is comms — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recommends produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memo, mode, moms, more, need, nerd, and nose. For points, the strongest play is comm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recommends turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, end, men, mom, nor, one, and red. For points, the strongest plays are mem, moc, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recommends. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in recommends plus one additional letter.
recommends 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for recommends. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
recommends is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recommends unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are commenders and recommends, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recommends 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 recommends produce 387 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.