reception needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reception is the highest-scoring word from reception, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reception — and it is reception itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reception. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erection. For points, the strongest plays are entropic, inceptor, prentice, pretonic, and terpenic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reception produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with percent and receipt. For points, the strongest plays are entopic, nepotic, percent, picotee, porcine, potence, precent, and receipt — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reception turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, copier, entire, erotic, notice, opener, and prince. For points, the strongest plays are copier, copter, crepon, incept, pecten, pectin, piecer, pierce, pincer, poetic, prince, recept, recipe, tricep, and tropic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reception. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, nicer, niece, piece, point, price, and print. For points, the strongest plays are copen, coper, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, optic, pence, picot, piece, ponce, price, and topic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reception produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, core, corn, epic, and into. For points, the strongest plays are cepe, cope, copi, crip, crop, epic, perc, and pice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reception turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, ice, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reception. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reception plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reception and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
reception 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 five senses for reception. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
reception is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reception unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reception, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reception 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 reception produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.