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.
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 and 9 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recusals turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assure, causes and clears. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including causes, clears and curses.
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 and cause. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including cares, cases and cause.
Rearranging the letters in recusals produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars and case. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including care, cars and case.
Unscrambling recusals turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ass and car. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including car, cue and ace.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in recusals plus one additional letter.
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.