Hidden inside recitation sit antierotic and recitation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 450 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
antierotic and recitation tie for the highest Scrabble score from recitation at 12 points. The top 10 of 450 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in recitation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recitation 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 antierotic and recitation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling recitation turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carnotite, intricate, and tricotine, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including reaction, actioner and anoretic.
Rearranging the letters in recitation produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain. For points, 31 words tie at 9 points, including certain, aconite and atretic.
Unscrambling recitation turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carton and erotic. For points, 51 words tie at 8 points, including action, carton and erotic.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, attic and cater. For points, 60 words tie at 7 points, including actor, attic and cater.
Rearranging the letters in recitation produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cent. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including care, cart and cent.
Unscrambling recitation turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 22 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
8 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in recitation plus one additional letter.
recitation 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for recitation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
recitation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recitation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are antierotic and recitation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recitation 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 recitation produce 450 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.