Hidden inside recon sit crone and recon, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crone and recon tie for the highest Scrabble score from recon at 7 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in recon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and recon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crone and recon, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in recon produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, core, corn, and once. For points, the strongest plays are cero, cone, core, corn, and once — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling recon turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, and one. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, eco, orc, rec, and roc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in recon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, and re — each worth 2 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 recon and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
recon 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.
recon is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing recon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crone and recon, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from recon 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 recon produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.