Hidden inside recursions sit coinsurers and recursions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 461 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coinsurers and recursions tie for the highest Scrabble score from recursions at 12 points. The top 10 of 461 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in recursions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recursions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinsurers and recursions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recursions turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinsurer, coinsures, insources, recursion, and resorcins, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cirruses, coinsure, cornuses, couriers, coursers, crosiers, cruisers, insource, necrosis, reincurs, resorcin, scorners, scourers, and scurries, 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 recursions produces 53 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corners, courses, cousins, cruises, seniors, serious, and sources. For points, the strongest plays are censors, cession, cirrose, cirrous, coenuri, coiners, conures, corners, cornier, corries, cosines, courier, courser, courses, cousins, cronies, crosier, crosser, cruiser, cruises, curries, cursers, cursors, incross, incuses, orceins, orrices, oscines, ouncers, recoins, recross, reincur, scorers, scorner, scourer, sources, sucrose, and uncross — 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 recursions turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, course, cousin, crises, cruise, curses, and noises. For points, the strongest plays are censor, census, cerous, cirrus, coiner, conies, conure, corers, corner, cornus, corrie, corses, cosier, cosies, cosine, course, cousin, criers, crises, crones, crores, crosse, crouse, cruise, cruors, cruses, cuisse, curers, curies, curios, currie, curser, curses, cursor, cusser, icones, incurs, incuse, orcein, orcins, orrice, oscine, ouncer, ounces, recoin, recons, recurs, ricers, scions, scones, scorer, scores, scorns, scours, scouse, scries, sonics, source, and sucres — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, cross, and cures. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, cines, cions, cires, coins, coirs, cones, conus, corer, cores, corns, cornu, corse, coses, cosie, cress, crier, cries, crone, crore, cross, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, curie, curio, curns, currs, curse, cusso, ecrus, icons, incur, incus, nicer, orcin, ounce, recon, recur, ricer, rices, runic, scion, scone, score, scorn, scour, sices, since, soces, sonic, sucre, uncos, and ureic — 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 recursions produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, core, corn, cues, and cure. For points, the strongest plays are cero, cess, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, coss, cris, crus, cues, cure, curn, curr, curs, cuss, ecos, ecru, ecus, ices, icon, nice, once, orcs, recs, rice, rocs, secs, sice, sics, unci, unco, and uric — 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 recursions turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, ice, nor, one, our, and run. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cor, cos, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, and soc — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recursions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, in, is, ne, no, nu, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, un, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recursions plus one additional letter.
recursions 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 recursions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recursions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recursions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coinsurers and recursions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recursions 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 recursions produce 461 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 53 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.