Another of these apparent inconsistencies that crop up from time to time:
precooked (the key word) and precook were both common;
recooked was common, but recook was rare.
Interesting also to look at the play count for these words: (from 375 players)
precook 231; precooked 277. So 46 players who played the seedword failed to play the root from which it was derived.
recook 186; recooked 164; so 22 more played the 'uncommon' word than played the common word.
Go figure, as the man says!