Hidden inside recanted sit cantered, crenated, decanter and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 237 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cantered, crenated, decanter and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from recanted at 11 points. The top 10 of 237 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in recanted: three come from rearranging its letters, and recanted 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 cantered, crenated, decanter, and recanted, each 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 recanted produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, created, and reacted. For points, the strongest plays are catered, centred, cerated, created, credent, enacted, reacted, recaned, and tranced — each 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 recanted turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, create, dancer, decent, earned, neater, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are cadent, canted, carted, cedarn, craned, crated, dancer, decane, decant, decare, decent, decern, nacred, redact, and traced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recanted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cared, cater, dance, eaten, enter, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, caned, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, creed, dance, decan, and raced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recanted produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, cart, cent, dare, date, and dear. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, cede, cred, and dace — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recanted turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, and, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recanted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in recanted 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.
recanted 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
recanted is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recanted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantered, crenated, decanter, and recanted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recanted 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 recanted produce 237 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.